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...Starting at 8 p.m., the Boston Pops plays the annual concert in the Hatch Shell on the Charles River Esplanade (T: Charles/MGH), featuring the Pops' special holiday program "A salute to the American Musical," a patriotic sing-along, fireworks, and a rendition of the 1812 Overture punctuated with real cannon fire...
...emblematic landscape of his finest work. No artist since Turner had painted the sea with such lyric concentration, from the beaming blue transparency of the Caribbean, captured in masterly watercolors, to the sullen beat and topple of gray combers driven by an Atlantic gale on the Maine rocks. Cannon Rock, 1895, with its high horizon line and broad V of incoming waves framed by dark rocks, exactly captures the sensation of standing on an exposed promontory with the sea coming straight at you, like a wall...
...heavily, putting aside the seniority rules to install committee chairmen loyal to him and denying his assistance as a fund raiser to House members who broke discipline on important votes. No journalist's story about him was complete until it described him as the most powerful Speaker since Joe Cannon of Illinois in the early years of this century...
...message stalled with the larger electorate. Lately he's a one-man version of the helpless superpower. The Contract with America is a suspended agreement, and Gingrich has the kind of approval ratings only Timothy McVeigh can envy. It can't give Gingrich much comfort to recall that Joe Cannon ended badly, getting kicked off the House Rules Committee...
...script is memorized rather than codified, lines continue to evolve and only the funniest carry over from year to year, says Colbert H. Cannon '97, president of the Crimson...