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...Cambridge winter "I like the [Leverett Towers] courtyard better in the winter because you can have snowball fights, and sometimes if you throw a snowball at my dog, she'll catch it in her mouth and spit it out." -Elizabeth "We made a snowman and it was Keala-size...I carry this backpack to keep me safe." FM: What's in the backpack? "Snow pants." FM: What do they keep you safe from? LIST LIST "Snow!"-Alana Yang 5, Kirkland House (Keala, her sister, is two and a half...
...like the [Leverett Towers] courtyard better in the winter because you can have snowball fights, and sometimes if you throw a snowball at my dog, she'll catch it in her mouth and spit it out." --Elizabeth...
...realist was he? In De Hooch's world every brick is in place--he was, as a matter of fact, the son of a master bricklayer--but that place may not have been in a real structure. The show contains two paintings of the "same" scene, a courtyard in Delft, from 1658, featuring a brick archway with an inscribed tablet and a round window above it, and a little arbor to the right. Except that in the second version the arbor isn't an arbor but a shed; and the slice of street seen through the archway is different...
...nines. The idea that De Hooch sold out to them, and to their way of life, thus sending his art into decadence, was widespread once. It isn't borne out by the pictures themselves. A strangely moody image from 1677, of a couple eating oysters in a shadowed courtyard while a black servant plays the viola, is one of the best of all his paintings. But the earlier, inward, reflective De Hoochs seem closer to his own life, and so they affect us more...
...grow there, using water collected by natural drainage (the land would be contoured to capture most rainwater, with excess flowing into ditches and ponds rather than concrete storm sewers). The streets would be narrow and end in cul-de-sacs. Winding walkways would connect the homes to a small courtyard of offices, reinforcing the theme of a community built for people, not cars...