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...echo whatever, in Lautrec's paintings or in his recorded remarks, of the political ferment that pervaded the intellectual and street life of Paris in the 1890s. And in terms of sexual politics, the seedy, overheated rooms of Lautrec's brothels are not much different from the satin bower in which, rather more than a century before, Boucher painted the rosy buttocks of the royal mistress Miss O'Murphy. It's just that they smell more real, even as Lautrec takes his sardonic delight in aestheticizing them in a different way, as emblems of what the age called decadence...
...speak directly and in a closely disciplined way for their own substance. Among these is the spectacular arc of Night and Day, 1984, half white and half black, a wooden effigy of the track of the sun. Especially there is the delicately ordered construction based on a nautilus shell, Bower, 1980. Its wooden web is as precise as the skeleton of an aircraft wing and yet is imbued with a promise of shelter: one would be happy to crawl inside it and rest. With this piece, Puryear's desire for an eloquence of craft and his interest in the metaphorical...
Delgado's exultation was soon cut short. Graham Brough, a reporter from the London tabloid Today who had alerted Delgado to the latest apparition, introduced him to two landscape painters, David Chorley, 62, and Douglas Bower, 67. They had created the Sevenoaks circle while Brough looked on. Moreover, the duo revealed that for the past 13 years they have been sneaking around southern England at night, fashioning as many as 25 to 30 new circles each growing season. Their efforts apparently inspired copycats, who in the past decade have used a variety of techniques to shape hundreds of crop circles...
...small southern town of Rhymers Creek, the book has as its protagonist Lila Mae Bower Pietrowsky. Lila Mae is well-intentioned, a good Christian woman who believes she is leading her disordered life as best she can. Her husband has left her. Her mother is a meddling hypochondriac. Wellsley Coe, whom Lila Mae has admired since high school, has insulted her virtue by asking her to have sex with him. And she is shocked and disappointed to discover that half the staff in the convalescent home where she works is homosexual...
...decision to leave law is becoming a more common one, especially in urban firms. "Compared with five years ago, there are a significantly greater number of lawyers today who are not practicing law for a living," says Ward Bower, a partner at the legal consulting firm Altman & Weil in Ardmore, Pa. Experts estimate that nearly 40,000 lawyers a year are leaving the profession, almost as many people as are entering law school annually. A Maryland State Bar Association survey last December found that 35% of the lawyers who responded were not sure they wished to continue practicing...