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Zharikov's husband, Vyacheslav, 56, whose respiratory illness forced him to take early retirement from his job as a sanitary engineer, cannot draw a pension until he is 60. He says the couple might even have expanded their brood if it weren't for the soaring inflation that has come with market reforms. "We didn't know our life would come to this, that the system would change," he says. The huge five-room flat, for which the family pays 162 rubles a month, is in desperate need of renovation. Nine rickety cots, a small table and a few chairs...
After her Paris year, Mary went to Trinity College in Dublin to study law. All indications are that she had a good time there. Her mother had bought a Dublin house for her brainy brood (Robinson is the third child and only girl among five) and added a governess to keep order. There were plenty of parties, but according to her brother Henry, "she always got the balance right." After graduation she spent a year at Harvard getting a master's degree at the law school. That was a seismic learning experience...
Friday: record release party for The Lyres with The Bugs and Brood...
...plan was beaverish: to walk, sniff, conn and brood every one of the county's 12 central grids, 744 sq. mi. on the U.S. Geological Survey maps. With much satisfaction, he reports it was Thomas Jefferson who directed that all of the nation except the already mapped East be ruled into grids, never mind natural or political borders. "Chase County sleeps north-south or east- west," he digresses (if that is possible in a project that depends on serendipity), "the square rooms squared with the world, the decumbent folk like an accountant's figures neatly between ruled lines, their slumber...
...show steers a didactic course through the recurrent images of jazz-age dreaming. Maria, the famous she-robot in Fritz Lang's 1927 film Metropolis, mother of a whole brood of automatons down to George Lucas' See Threepio, was not alone: her brothers were the machine men of Dadaism, whose poetic meaning (like hers) was anguish in the face of inhuman technology. No phase of modern art showed such profound doubts about the present, or threw off such febrile dreams about new social orders. The millenarian hope that eventually spawned the totalitarianism of the '30s was felt by artists, architects...