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...educate people [about the blues] will be one of our main focuses--and to reveal in the process our homespun roots," said Colston P. Burgher, one of the operating managers...
Puig, a brilliant eclectic, produced some of the signature buildings of Barcelona. One is the Casa Amatller, next to Gaudi's Casa Batllo, a fecund parody of a Dutch burgher's housefront, with mock-medieval sculptures by the gifted Eusebi Arnau -- including animals blowing glass and taking photos, these having been the owner's hobbies. Another is Puig's exquisitely decorated house for the Baron Quadras, now a museum of musical instruments; a third, the Venetian-Gothic Casa Marti, housed the center of Barcelona's artistic bohemia, the Four Cats cafe, where established artists like Ramon Casas hobnobbed with younger...
...into his metaphysical melodramas -- The Seventh Seal, Persona, Autumn Sonata and many others -- testifies to that truth. So no one thought Bergman was kidding when in 1983 he declared that After the Rehearsal would be his last film. He was 65, a good age for a parson or a burgher to retire, and he had always been a most reliably productive artist: in the winter doing his job directing plays at Stockholm's Royal Dramatic Theater, in the summer making films as a kind of holiday in hell. Eight years ago, that routine ended. There was more (luminous) theater work...
...Drew, doggedly sleuthing until she cracks a dark mystery. She can tolerate everything -- the aged Reichmongers cloaked in propriety, the goons who threaten her children -- everything but acceptance. When the town finally acknowledges her achievements, she must push it away. Who wants to be embraced and embalmed by Bavarian burgher smugness? Not our nasty girl...
Rhetorically, for obvious reasons, emphasis tends to center on strengths. On July 3, as the sun set over Governor's Island, we all heard Chief Justice Warren Burgher wax grandiloquent on his own family's immigrant history in the Swede towns of the Midwest. On September 4, we can look forward to hearing His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales muse on the origins of Harvardiana at Emmanuel College, Cambridge University...