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CHILDE HASSAM: AN ISLAND GARDEN REVISITED, National Museum of American Art, Washington. The islands are the Isles of Shoals, off the New Hampshire coast, and the garden was the notable cultivation of journalist-poet Celia Thaxter. Both are memorably captured here by Hassam (1859-1935), America's foremost impressionist. Through...
...joining TIME in 1973, she has been based in Paris, Washington and Boston. She welcomed her transfer to New York in 1988, she says, because "I felt the need for something bigger." Attinger is not defensive about the fact that she, her husband Bernard Cohen and their two daughters, Celia, 6, and Abigail, 3, live across the Hudson River in New Jersey. "Not only is it too expensive to live in Manhattan, but everything is too big and tall for small children," she says. Whenever they can, however, she and her family take advantage of New York's theaters, museums...
...effort represents the first stage of a two-part program to mark Harvard facilities with Braille signs, said Celia M. Kent of the Physical Resources Office. Kent said her office has ordered custom name plates for the main entrances to Yard classrooms and dormitories, and will install them within the next few months...
...first the lure was furs, and then whaling, timber and fishing. When the U.S. bought the territory from Russia in 1867 for $7 million, little changed. The gold rushes of the late 1800s brought hordes of prospectors, beginning a boom-and-bust cycle that continues to this day. Says Celia Hunter, a lodge keeper who came to the territory 42 years ago: "Alaskans have always looked for the big bang that would solve all their problems." Some development schemes were downright absurd. In the late 1950s, Hunter helped quash a proposal to use atom bombs to blast an artificial harbor...
...forget about his rubber duckie when he played the sax. The Muppets sounded like Louie Armstrong. The procession of celebrities was endless. First, John Candy. Then, Jane Curtin, Pee Wee Herman, the New York Mets, the New York Giants, Ladysmith Black Mombazu, Paul Simon, Danny DeVito, salsa queen Celia Cruz, etc. All telling Ernie to "put down the duckie" for a while. It was a rare treat, a scene that affirms Sesame Street's place as the most original show on television...