Word: edens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most Arcadian picture in this show is Wivenhoe Park, Essex, 1816, almost the last word on Eden-as-Property. The enameled lawns and bulky cows, the relaxed zigzag of planes leading the eye toward the pink villa, the swans and fishermen riding on a serene sheet of water stitched with silver light: this is the epitome of civilized landscape. Like the best work of Jacob van Ruisdael, the 17th century Dutchman whom Constable considered a master of "natural" vision, Wivenhoe Park manages to be both real and ideal; it is a powerful (though subdued) instrument of fantasy as well...
...would think the mood in the legislature is that hazardous waste and asbestos are problems which need to be dealt with acutely," said Jeremy Eden, legislative assistant to State Sen. John W. Olver (D-Buckland), chairman of the taxation committee...
Dignity is a quality that Shroeder Duncan, the laid-back loser of Murphy Guyer's Eden Court, would gladly settle for. Murphy has a dead-end job, a cluttered mobile home, a cynical pal (Steve Rankin) and a wife (the elfin Holly Hunter) who still carries a torch for Elvis Presley. This comedy's ambitions are no loftier than Shroeder's; it is just a tasty slice of lowlife, but full of sweet feeling for its tattered eccentrics. As Shroeder, Actor-Playwright Guyer is a brown study of the good ole boy, wondering what ever happened...
...Xavier's. When Tennessee was seven, the sunlit backyards of his boyhood were exchanged for rows of St. Louis brick flats the color of "dried blood and mustard." The change was shattering for Williams, and he was to make of the South a mythic past, an expulsion from Eden...
...name from Sanche de Gramont in 1977 when he became a U.S. citizen. The son of a diplomat had been raised as a hereditary count in one of France's oldest aristocratic families. A graduate of Yale, Morgan detailed his affection for the U.S. in Rowing Toward Eden (1981). Now at work on a one-volume life of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Morgan says, "I think about him constantly. The subject is something that you can't get out of your head. They said that when William Manchester was working on MacArthur he started smoking a corncob pipe...