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...most assiduously promoted exhibition to be seen in the U.S. in years. Its catalog weighs as much as a young salmon (6 1/2 lbs.) and is about as hard to carry. Though the National Gallery's director, J. Carter Brown, is accepting most of the credit for it, the main work of selection, cataloging and arrangement was carried out by its English curator, Gervase Jackson-Stops, architectural adviser to the National Trust in London. He did the job with wide knowledge and, in the matings of some objects, a dry wit. One could be fatigued by the result but never...
...aristocrats willing to espouse liberal views, and they are commemorated in this show by Francis Wheatley's genre painting of John Howard, the pioneer of English carceral reform, visiting a prison in 1787. The work once belonged to the reforming, antislavery Tory, Lord Harrowby. But the show and its catalog broadcast together on a narrow band of social meaning, emitting what is basically a fantasy about relationships between taste, property and justice. The show has done an extraordinary job of conveying the opulence of its subject. But the other side of the coin is worth remembering, even as one gapes...
...Timely Beeper, also known as False Alarm, is sold by the Sharper Image, a San Francisco firm that has a mail-order catalog and several retail stores. Since it was introduced three months ago, several thousand have been sold. The product was created by Eugene Grant, 67, the founder of Omega Contract Design, a California-based designer of aerospace products. The notion came to him one day, when he found himself restless in church. Says Grant: "There I was listening to one homily after another. Meanwhile I was dying to go fishing." When a fellow churchgoer's beeper went...
...mean to say you haven't received an invitation yet? Maybe it got thrown away along with that sweepstakes offer or wedged inside the Sears catalog. Perhaps you just didn't notice it, what with all the bills and such. Just in case: it probably had engraved lettering on white kid stationery and the words "On the occasion of the visit of Their Royal Highnesses, the Prince and Princess of Wales." No? Well, perhaps it hasn't arrived; such things do happen. You might want to call the White House to see if the invitation was misplaced...
...organization's past activities include conducting and publishing a 1982 survey on sexual harrassment, sponsoring a women's studies thesis forum, compiling the women's studies course catalog, creating a women's center, and providing financial aid to various other student groups...