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...activists pooh-pooh such fears. "Collectively and individually, talk- show hosts have the fattest egos you'd ever want to bump heads against," says Mark Williams. "So the likelihood of them agreeing on a national agenda is minimal." If they do, however, it might be time for listeners to follow an oft-repeated bit of talk-show advice: Turn your radio down...
...doubt. Larkin might have had mixed feelings about his Collected Poems, which contains more than 80 pieces never before seen in print and some two dozen previously uncollected in book form. But the poet's army of admirers -- solitary types, for the most part, who are often surprised to bump into fellow enlistees -- need suffer no such scruples. This volume only enhances Larkin's imposing stature...
...seat restaurant is sometimes booked three months in advance and boasts a four-star rating from the Mobil Travel Guide. Over a Kir Royale aperitif, bemused diners can enjoy a seminar in progress. On view in the glassed-in kitchen, a dozen nervous young chefs in tall toques bump into one another as they peel, poach and broil their way through the evening. At times it may seem that the students will never turn out a sumptuous meal, but fine dishes ranging from chilled duck borscht with ginger and melon to apricot mousse arrive on time, borne by hesitant student...
American museums have so conditioned their public to expect sweeping historical surveys and one-person retrospectives that one forgets how uncommon it is to bump into an exhibition that sets out more modestly to look at ideas about culture. Just such a show is The Pastoral Landscape: The Legacy of Venice and the Modern Vision, organized by the Phillips Collection in Washington and set forth in two parts, one at the Phillips and the other at the National Gallery...
FALL has come, and the mosquitoes have started to die, but the time for bloodsucking has not yet passed. If you missed the itches and welts of summer, you can still get a tingle this weekend at the Leverett House Old Library. The experience will leave you bump-free, if bored. To get a taste of the action, all you need do is attend a performance of Dracula...