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Nnenna Freelon sings at the 5th Anniversary Benefit Concert for the Cambridge Housing Assistance Fund (CHAF) with a concert entitled “Coming Home to Help the Homeless”. Freelon, a five-time Grammy nominee and a Cambridge native, will present a mix of gospel, jazz, and rhythm and blues. 8 p.m. $23-28. Sanders Theatre...

Author: By Crimson Staff, | Title: Listings, Oct. 9-10, 2003 | 10/3/2003 | See Source »

...decorative Rorschach blot. But Louis destroyed much of his own work, editing heavily, and the sense of risk in the surviving paintings gave them an intriguing tension, as though their radiance had been snatched from the very jaws of entropy. His best works, like Beth Gimel, 1958, or Beth Chaf, 1959, touch upon the exalted otherness of nature (one might be looking at an aurora borealis or a butte), and their concentration on broad effect of light and color, coupled with the impersonality of their technique, seems to connect back through Georgia O'Keeffe's watercolors to 19th century American...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: A Look At a Beautiful Impasse | 11/10/1986 | See Source »

...city. He calls his administration a "wild show" and pur sues his quest for "visible government" by ranging the city day and night, turn ing up at fires and theater openings, dropping into police stations and art galleries, presiding at Waldorf banquets with bigwigs and at street-corner chaf-ferings with slum constituents. He has, in fact, an excess of both zeal and guts that has made him assault the city's gargantuan problems with reckless disregard for his own standing. In his many tilts with the city's plodding, 300,000-man bureaucracy and other reform-resistant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New York: Governing the Ungovernable | 12/16/1966 | See Source »

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