Word: display
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Cate Blanchett, Elizabeth: In a unspectacular movie filled with incoherent gaps of logic, Blanchett provided the unifying arc. There is no doubt that her performance is a fierce, brave display of subtlety and strength. But Blanchett is foreign--and Gwyneth Paltrow is not. (Remember, this is the American Academy of Arts and Sciences...
...must be considered independently. She divides his photographs into four discrete but contingent sections: portraits, abstractions, fashion photographs and still lives. As the works were taken during his ten-year residence in France between 1932 and 1942, they bear a strong stylistic affinity to each other. Yet the works display Wols's movement from germinal Bauhaus sterility and Surrealist tomfoolery to a style ultimately unique both from his contemporaries and from his later works on canvas...
Stop and smell the roses--and the lilacs and the violets. Artistry in the Garden, the New England Spring Flower Show, continues to bloom today. Exhibits include a "living room," furnished with living plant material, a tribute to "My Fair Lady" depicted in an English courtyard market and a display of topiaries of Beatrix Potter's "Peter Rabbit and Friends". Bayside Exposition Center, just off I-93 and Morrissey Boulevard, Boston. 536-9280. 10 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. $13 in advance, $14 at the door...
...display room at the Harvard University Press (HUP) in the Holyoke Center Arcade, books range from The Kindness of Children, a new book by a former kindergarten teacher, to Postal Communication in China and its Modernization, 1860-1896, an older monograph tucked in the rear corner of the room...
...snack on ripe fruit from the orchard that helped bankroll his conservation activities. In Muir's 17-room mansion, young children will enjoy seeing the toys that belonged to Muir's daughters; older kids will gravitate to the "scribble den," where Muir did his writing. Among the artifacts on display: a spear presented to Muir by Native Americans in honor of his courage...