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...have any interest in inventing stuff when you were a kid? When I was a kid, I was obsessed with this idea of opening a restaurant back in Indiana on a little pond. The guests would order their dinner and then take a little boat out with a colored flag on the front of it. When the matching color of the flag on their boat went up on a flag pole, their dinner was ready! Obviously, the Ford Motor Company is not very happy with me this week, so I will just give that idea to the Olive Garden Corporation...
...late work running at London's Tate Modern. By the time he made them, Rothko was at the height of his powers as an artist. He was also a favorite among rich collectors, which didn't sit well with him. Were the moneymen buying his beckoning fogbanks of color simply because they found them decorative? Possibly; that may be one reason why, in 1957, his palette darkened. Nothing about a glowering picture like Four Darks in Red, completed in 1958, suggests it was painted to go with the curtains...
...paint something that will ruin the appetite of every son of a bitch who ever eats in that room." But in the end it was Rothko whose endurance gave out. By then, he had completed more than 30 canvases: dark, foreboding panels in which his characteristic horizontal bars of color were replaced by explosive verticals or squares that seem like gateways to something ineffable. Unwilling finally to imagine this work on the walls of a society hangout, Rothko withdrew from the project...
...world, have taken some curious evolutionary turns. The nocturnal aye-aye, for instance, has a long, skeletal middle finger that enables it to retrieve grubs from inside trees; the hook-billed vanga evolved a curved bill for a similar reason, while the horned-leaf chameleon can change color to match the dead leaves on the floor of western Madagascar's dry deciduous forest...
...Brothers and Big Sisters, and Boston Cares said they saw HollaDay as a forum to recruit volunteers. The importance of HollaDay had particular resonance this year in light of Boston’s Commonwealth Compact, a community initiative to make Massachusetts a location of choice for people of color. “We figure if people feel more comfortable in a place and enjoy it more they’ll stay,” Lee said. “If you connect students inside Boston to the community, after they graduate it will be harder to sever these ties...