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Led by the Cambridge Harmonica Orchestra, the colorful extravaganza featured exotic cars, celebrity look alikes, dancers from the Harvard sponsored Citystep troupe, and popular Harvard Square street performer Brother Blue.
But another prominent local businessman was more skeptical "I'd like to feel very optimistic, yet I don't," said Frank N. Cardullo, owner of the Wursthaus and Cardullo's added that Charles Square establishment's would have to be "extremely expensive" to meet their high overheads.CrimsonDavid S. HilzenrathMiss Teen...
But Rousseau was very conscious of style, and loved referring to other art. "I cannot now change my style, which I acquired, as you can imagine, by dint of stubborn labor," he wrote to a critic shortly before his death. He wanted his work to be a homemade replica of...
Like many sweet old buffers, he admired authority. He painted the artists lining up for the Salon des Independants as an army of black-clad troops, carrying paintings of identical size; it was a parody of the military metaphor of the avant-garde. Rousseau wanted honors, like his heroes. When...
Facts merely impeded Rousseau. He needed fictions. Desperately poor most of his life, he could not travel. He had plenty of sources to draw on, untraceable today because ephemeral then. He used almanacs and magazines, engravings and photographs. He visited the exotic pavilions at the 1889 Exposition in Paris. He...