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...work itself is a visual personal history, evoking elements of Gerolimatos’ childhood in Athens and her Greek Orthodox faith. A boldly colored, sparse image of a woman’s face greets visitors as they enter the room. This image, of Gerolimatos’ mother, is one of the 12 original paintings on display. The other brightly colored works, many of which depict Biblical scenes, are hung on the adjacent white walls...
Larisa Heimert, daughter of the late Cabot Professor of American Literature Alan E. Heimert ’49, who served as Eliot House Master from 1968-1991, and his wife Associate Master Arlene G. Heimert ’59, spent her whole childhood in the Eliot Masters’ residence, from when she was born in 1972 until 1985. She is now an editor at Yale University Press. Like Bossert, she remembers the excitement of House life. “It was a huge playground in a lot of ways,” she says. “The Masters?...
...secret of the company's success goes back to Gold's childhood in a house full of fussy, formal furniture. "Growing up, we had cane-backed dining-room chairs that really weren't comfortable," says Gold. "We couldn't have a dog. We weren't even allowed to sit in the living room." That helped him appreciate the pleasures of an overstuffed sofa. He met Williams in 1986 in New York City, where Gold spent six years as a furniture buyer for Bloomingdale's and Williams worked as a graphic designer for Seventeen magazine. They both saw the same opportunity...
...veil flapping erratically over the vulnerability that now defines him. Barry sympathetically depicts Silvester as a man who knows he has done wrong, but believes that his motives were always noble. "What a pity love is no defense" he reflects, an image cleverly crystallized in a tale of his childhood, when he accidentally transmitted a fatal fever to his baby sister by hugging...
According to the 2001 documentary Mickey Mouse Monopoly: Disney, Childhood and Corporate Power—screened to a 20-member audience at Boylston Hall Saturday—this familiar scene from Walt Disney’s Aladdin perpetuates stereotypes of women as little more than temptresses...