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Police were mildly surprised to find a fully clothed gentleman posing for pictures in a Washington, D.C., fountain one morning last week. They were astonished to see the same person half an hour later, this time splashing in the Reflecting Pool on the Capitol Mall. "One of the cops asked my photographer something like 'Whatareyadoin?' " recalled Humor Columnist Art Buchwald, who explained that he was merely creating a cover for his new book, Washington Is Leaking. "But that was it. Tourists just walked by-like everybody stands up to their hips in Reflecting Pool water." Well, not exactly...
...recapture Piranesi's vision; either the monument itself has changed, or the ground level, or the surroundings. In some instances Piranesi drew scenes the eye (or the camera) could not see in any age; there is not nor has there ever been enough space in front of the Trevi Fountain to make it possible to see the whole fountain and the buildings on either side at once. Piranesi's Rome is partly fictitious; when his observation of a monument clashed with his conception of it, the subjective reality always won over the objective. Thus the Tiber Island becomes a ship...
Boris Aronson is 76, but he has obviously drunk at some fountain of creative vigor. He was born in Kiev, where at eight he wandered into an opera house and was transfixed with the beauty of a peacock painted on a stage curtain. He remained transfixed. Aronson studied set designing and in 1923 embarked on that large, frightening and decisive immigrant's gamble: the ship to New York and the land of opportunity. In 1927, he won his initial Broadway designing credit for a show called 2 x 2 = 5. It was the first of 88 sets for theater...
Cincinnati has long been heralded as one of the nation's best-policed cities. Pedestrians can safely roam downtown Fountain Square even at night...
...also have a wider padded seat and incorporate two water jets for cleansing. Many washbasins, he finds, are built "so low as to be ideal only for small children." He proposes a contoured bowl, 36 in. high, deep at one end, wide and shallow at the other, with a fountain spout that can be used for mouth washing and shampooing...