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...connections between works are endless and can be overwhelming if not explored leisurely. As the hyphen suggests, “Re-View” is not merely a review of the Harvard Art Museum’s collection, but prompts the viewer to reconsider the works, even the most famous and recognizable of them. If a measure of a good exhibition is one to which you can always return and learn something new, “Re-View” is certainly a success.—Staff writer Victoria D. Sung can be reached at vsung@fas.harvard.edu...
Even in his own country, Ayckbourn has never received the critical respect accorded contemporaries like Tom Stoppard and David Hare. They write "important" plays about political issues or world-famous physicists or 19th century Russian philosophers. Ayckbourn's realm is smaller and more familiar - the domestic and romantic predicaments of modern, middle-class Brits. Yet no one has probed more acutely, or with a finer balance of laughter and pain, the sad human drama behind these tidy surfaces: the inability of people to connect, to see the casual cruelty they inflict on others, to come to terms with their failed...
...Kennedy, scion of America's most famous political family and a wealthy investor in his day, told of selling his holdings before the 1929 market crash because a shoeshine boy had offered him stock tips. The story may well be apocryphal, but in the decades since, shoeshine boys have become a kind of insider's measure of how a market's doing. In the main shopping center in London's Canary Wharf financial district David Peralta is one such oracle, though not because he hands out investment tips...
...With all the success that Incubus has seen, are you nervous about being too famous on campus? Have you been stopped for any autographs...
...Literally every single person that I’ve met so far has been really cool and amazing and it’s great. I think a lot of the professors and a lot of other people who have studied here are a million times more famous than I’ll ever be, so I don’t really feel like that’s an issue for me at all. And short of getting some very, uh, interesting looks from people when I either tell them or they find out about...