Word: displays
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...BRAD MEHLDAU Elegiac Cycle (Warner Bros.). A 29-year-old pianist who displays not only promise but accomplishment. With classical grace and jazz improvisation, he has created a masterly album about loss; virtually every track has the liquid warmth of a freshly shed tear. Moments of genius in music are rare as diamonds. This CD sparkles like a display case at Tiffany...
...HOME TOWN This fond but completely unsentimental portrait of Northampton, Mass., captures the joys and the sheer human cussedness on daily display there. Tracy Kidder lives nearby, and he spent years listening to his neighbors and walking their streets. His book is an extraordinary feat of reporting and writing, a vivid reminder both of why so many Americans flee the small towns of their birth and why so many of them miss the sense of belonging that such places inspire...
...anonymous Boston woman has donated five literary works owned by Monroe to Radcliffe's Schlesinger Library. All authored by American women, the books will be on display at the library through the end of January...
...effect of seeing Jewish lives lost to the Holocaust superimposed upon the crumbling buildings that had once been their homes was deeply disorienting; the images were projected for several evenings and served as a testimony in light to passers-by. The ICA has lightbox photographs of the projections on display as documents of the 1992 event...
...Attie was commissioned to create a site-specific installation for the ICA, which will use laser and slide projection to illuminate the building's former use as a prison for the Boston Police Department. To disrupt our own quotidian urban experience, An Unusually Bad Lot will be on public display evenings during selected dates between Dec. 30 and Jan. 12. Though the very nature of Attie's work makes it ephemeral, the ICA has ensured in this excellent presentation that these projections of lives won't simply vanish into silence, but urge us, through their presence, to remember...