Word: edwards
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...Aurélia’s Oratorio,” the figure also carries a hat and purse on her elevated feet. There is a strong sense of wonder to the production, but it maintains a dark undercurrent that makes it more the stuff of Edward Gorey than Dr. Seuss. And so “Aurélia’s Oratorio” manages to stay pitch-perfect, with a few exceptions. In one of the weaker moments, a disco ball appears onstage, and the generally unobtrusive score switches to an accordion-inflected circus song with fairly raunchy lyrics...
...event turned somber when Senator Edward M. Kennedy ’54-’56 reportedly suffered a seizure and was taken to nearby Washington Hospital...
...comparisons between Wyeth and other regionalist/realists of the period—Winslow Homer, Norman Rockwell—the best is to Edward Hopper. As the abstract painter Mark Rothko put it, “Wyeth is about the pursuit of strangeness, but he is not whole, as Hopper is whole.” I can accept that Wyeth is perhaps not the best of his contemporaries. But that they passed him by entirely? Never...
UPDATE: Kennedy's office released a statement from his doctor in the early evening. It quoted Dr. Edward Aulisi, chairman of neurosurgery at Washington Hospital Center as saying that "after testing, we believe the incident was brought on by simple fatigue." In the statement, Aulisi added: "[Kennedy] will remain ... overnight for observation, and will be released in the morning...
...National-security experts say the cover-all-bases approach is justified because of the sheer scale and prestige of the Inauguration. "It is the most challenging national-security event in the world," says Edward Clark, a former director of Homeland Security. "You're talking about a huge volume of people, and of dignitaries, so it is potentially a target for every kind of extremist, domestic or foreign." Besides, says Clark, the authors of the assessment report also need to cover themselves for every untoward possibility. "This is as much a political situation as it is a security situation," he says...