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...households, like Thomas Jefferson's, that could afford it. Commodore Matthew Perry's arrival in Tokyo Bay in 1853, which forced Meiji Japan to open itself to Western influence, led to a concurrent craze in Europe and the U.S. for all things Japanese. By the turn of the century Ernest Fenollosa and William Sturgis Bigelow, learned Bostonians infatuated with Japan, were assembling the great collections of furniture, scrollwork, carvings and prints that now fill whole galleries of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts...
...FOOFs (Friends of Old Films) like Yours Truly, the 75th anniversary class portrait of dozens of Oscar-winning actors was pleasant, poignant, sometimes prurient. Since the excuse for these reunions is to see how the waxworks look decades after their eminence (Kirk Douglas: chiseled; Jennifer Jones: scary; Ernest Borgnine: exactly the same as 50 years ago, when he was the thug in "From Here to Eternity"), I wondered why the producers bothered to include recent winners. Where were Elizabeth Taylor, Jane Fonda, Lisa "She's Everywhere Else" Minnelli? And could Joan Fontaine call a truce with her sister Olivia...
CONVICTED. ERNEST AVANTS, 72, former Ku Klux Klansman; of the 1966 murder of a black man, Ben Chester White, as part of a plot to lure the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King to Natchez, Miss., where Avants and two coconspirators allegedly planned to assassinate the civil rights leader; in Jackson, Miss...
Under the guise of Sir Ernest Shackleton, senior Justin Bosley turned in seventh place finishes in both the initial and final heat, completing his 2000 meters in 6:02.50 in the first stage and 6:03.80 in the second...
Further on, he documents a similar literary spook: subconsciously or not, he claims, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway and others lifted their style in certain passages from Mark Twain...