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Save for occasional tedious digressions--four whole paragraphs on Nona's yoga breathing--Nunez limns Nona's search for self with some impressively elegant writing, which gives this book its true appeal. Of the love letters Nona receives, Nunez writes, "They were carried away not by love but by the...
Solid, hot, rolled steel. Chunks upon chunks of it. Now showing at the Fogg Art Museum, a packed exhibition of David Rabinowitch works shows off the possibilities of sculpture cut off at the knees: flat, squat pieces placed directly on the museum floor. Despite some bombastic prose that ill befits...
They are, in a way, easy marks. Primo, the chef, is a shy and brooding purist, utterly unable to compromise one of his exquisite risottos, no matter what the market demands. Secondo, the maitre d', shoots his cuffs with elegant panache but is not quite the shrewd and worldly businessman...
From the Philippines to the United States. From San Francisco to New York City. From the '70s to the '80s, from jazz to rock, from lumpia (a Filipino dish) to peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwiches, from Tagalog (a language native to the Philippines) to English, from assimilation blues to a...
* A Touch of Elegance: Start at Copley Square, site of some of the city's most elegant buildings and the intersection of history and modernity--old churches and a new mall. Then explore the tony Back Bay section of Boston. Go window shopping on Newbury Street (on a student's...