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...really a stage set. The Piazza d'ltalia fountain in New Orleans was commissioned as a celebratory space for the local Italian community. Moore dismissed all thought of "unitary" Tuscan directness and produced a razzmatazz design, a caprice resembling the gaudy, papier-mâché fair sets of Sicilian festa decor: fragments of Roman and Renaissance buildings around an 80-ft.-long stone map of Italy, like the masterpiece of a megalomaniac pastry cook. A fountain spurts out of Moore's Sicily, and its water runs down in rivulets representing the Po, the Arno and the Tiber...
...retained much of its original decor after the move to Mt. Auburn St., however, and remained a favorite of students and even a few faculty members...
...entwined lovers, tenderly dislocated, are clearly meant to be seen as emanations of the earth, concretions of place and appetite. On occasion her liking for the organic goes too far. She has a habit of incrusting the skin of the figures with artsy-craftsy fern patterns and other vegetable decor, to their detriment. But her references to an archaeological past are almost always successful. The biscuity surface of the sprawl ing bodies alludes, though not blatantly, to the plaster corpses of Pompeii, just as the division into parts refers to the cult of the antique fragment ? a hand here...
...little further out of the Square on Brattle St., the Paperback booksmith sells largely the same assortment as Harvard Bookstore. The decor is more in the '60s style and the atmosphere is a little less intense, and as a bonus, you can usually find more weirdos browsing there than anywhere else in town. Again, the prices are whatever is printed on the cover, so don't come looking for any sensational bargains. You're sure to find any and all popsychology books, plus the Rolling Stones-'60s revival volume you've been looking for so long, so spend away...
...priced sandwiches that make you wonder why you ever put up with Mom's lousy cooking. The Turkey Deluxe (T.D., for the football fans out there) is a classic, and the hot pastrami and cheese ranks up there with motherhood and the flag as something worth fighting for. The decor is, in a word, crummy (in two words, very crummy), but you can go somewhere else to digest, right? Two warnings: stay away from the place at lunchtime, when the Governor often has to call in the National Guard to keep the crowds in line, and beware of the pinball...