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...Picture this familiar scene: You've just come out of Lamont, you haven't eaten in six hours, you've been studying all night, you're starving and, on top of everything else, it's freezing. Where do you go? Your choices are as varied as Tommy's sesame crust pizza, Pinocchio's Sicilian pizza or Store 24's hours-old, microwavable mysteries...
Except for gravy and pie crust, which take patience and practice, Thanksgiving dinner is as easy to make as it is to eat. You're a right-handed batter in a park that's 150 feet down the left-field line--it doesn't take a genius to poke...
...clients. He must know the details of dress, possessions, gesture, expression--the whole theater of a sitter's self-representation--from within. Titian, Rubens, Van Dyck and Reynolds had shown that; and Copley, in a smaller domain, knew it too. In 1769 he cemented his place in the upper crust of Massachusetts by marrying Susannah Clarke, daughter of a Tory merchant nabob who represented the East India Company's tea interests (it was his tea that was dumped in the harbor during the Boston Tea Party). This marriage put the Irish tobacconist's boy at the same level...
Those who stayed until the fair's close saw one of Harvard's History and Literature tutors, Edward L. Widmer '84, singing to a crowd of thousands in a wig, velveteen britches and a beauty mark, with his band, "The Upper Crust...
...tested split tones, wrote his own beautifully complex compositions and experimented with long free-form solos. Also included is a detailed booklet of essays and personal reminiscences. (Maybe too detailed: 'Trane loved cooking oatmeal and hot chocolate, we learn from his cousin Mary, but "didn't like any crust on the white part" of his eggs.) For Coltrane fans the outtakes are a particular revelation--not just for the bits of studio banter (Coltrane and his sidemen are heard laughing about the wild chord changes) but also for the unusual glimpse of the evolution of such Coltrane numbers as Naima...