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...only thing left to do at that point was to wait and see if the Crimson would earn an invitation to the ECAC Championships. And when May 10 came around, the Harvard players found themselves on the diamond once again, playing for a different title...
...talk host Larry King, 63, swears off marriage every few years, but then hope triumphs over experience. His latest intended is Shawn Southwick, 37, who will become Mrs. King No. 7. They met in front of Tiffany in Manhattan, but now she is sporting a gumball-size diamond from Harry Winston, down the street...
This godly plainness, the desire for which was embedded so deep in early American identity, runs through much folk art. It is in the fiercely conservative center-square and diamond-in-the-square Lancaster Amish quilts, with their magnificent sobriety of color--a soft, swaddling minimalism, America's first major abstract art. And then, of course, there are the Shakers, who reached America in 1774 but whose celebrated furniture attained its apogee of design between 1820 and 1850. "Hands to work," said a Shaker motto, "hearts to God." Work was prayer, and nothing "worldly," meaning ostentatious or decorative, was allowed...
DIED. THOMAS CONNOR, 91, last surviving member of the fbi squad that gunned down Public Enemy No. 1, John Dillinger, in 1934; in Southbury, Connecticut. A minor bureau clerk whose on-the-diamond skills got noticed by baseball fanatic J. Edgar Hoover, Connor was drafted as a special agent, and ended up stationed in a Chicago alley during Dillinger's final and fatal showdown...
...design is dynamic and unique. The ingenious placement of a square platform tilted towards the audience like a baseball diamond symbolizes the off-kilter lives of the characters. The sparse furniture is obvious enough for the audience to readily identify the location of each scene. It's overall an efficient and prop-light production. The only distraction was the cigarette smoke that mysteriously floated away from the audience and upwards towards the ceiling behind the lights. Because the lighting is focused only on the platform, the introduction of such a moving element draws the audience's attention away from...