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Speaking for restaurants smaller than his own, Greenville Byron, president of John Harvard's Brew House and a leader in negotiations with the DHH, addressed the danger to Cambridge restaurants in similar tones...
...richness of Shelley's text, and its uncanny ability to inspire horror. The novel is surprisingly unassuming, the first work of a 19 year-old writer who was to have few other lasting successes. But it is powerfully midwifed by the godfathers of the Romantic movement, Lord Byron and Percy Blythe Shelley, and Mary Shelley's own traumatic family experiences. The frustrations of her position--her selfimposed exile with the radical, and still-married, Shelley, her confinement in the home and her failed pregnancies--are expressed in the passion with which she narrates the creation, birth and development...
...extreme are easily accessible depictions of black life, such as printmaker Varnette Honeywood's realistic portrayals of African women, which the Huxtables of TV's Cosby hung on their walls. At the other extreme are the puckish conceptual works of such younger figures as Glenn Ligon and Byron Kim and of David Hammons, their artistic godfather. Hammons, 51, paints or uses found objects to create pieces that raise unsettling questions about the significance of race. For example, after his 16-ft. by 14-ft. portrait of a blond, blue-eyed Jesse Jackson titled How Ya Like Me Now? was installed...
...contrast, Breyer looked more and more attractive. His chief problem, the nanny factor, was the least troublesome. When he was under consideration for Byron White's seat last year, Breyer had been snagged for unpaid Social Security taxes for a cleaning lady. He subsequently paid the taxes, only to have the IRS later determine that he had not in fact owed the money; the IRS refunded...
Furthermore, Jett was known for his peculiar fascination with the symphonies of Gustav Mahler, the poetry of Lord Byron, and the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche...