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DIED. ARTHUR CANTOR, 81, Broadway producer whose wife thought he was "nuts" for investing $2,000 in 1957 in a show called The Music Man and who championed the comic playwrights Paddy Chayefsky and Herb Gardner; in Manhattan. Cantor, a publicist before becoming a producer, hoisted signs for his marquees as humorous as the plays they pushed. One read, "'I laughed my head off'--Marie Antoinette...
Isabella Stewart Gardner, a lifelong Protestant of good New England Puritan stock, seems an odd choice for a collector of crucifixes. But Mrs. Gardner, always one for surprises, owned sixteen crucifixes (or portions thereof), which are currently hanging in the Gardner's exhibition room...
...There is the rub: as the exhibition's introductory placards, when they're not re-introducing Mrs. Gardner (what a great dame, look at how devout and open-minded she was, isn't Boston lucky to have had her, etc.), mention that although the figure of the cross does not arise simultaneously with Christianity, it becomes a strikingly powerful image by the Medieval period. So powerful, widely recognized and anticipated, apparently, that even a suggestion of a shape more or less in the cross family evokes the appropriate spiritual response...
...rendered with ethereal detail, his face delicately worked, even the drops of blood from the wound in his side are ivory. This piece can't help but draw your undivided attention-and it's no wonder that it captured the eye of a Boston Episcopalian such as Mrs. Gardner. These crosses are almost too beautiful to be religious, and yet the genuine piety evident in the artists' labors gives them a depth beyond many secular works...
...gonna join Coach K at the Party? You can write the invitation already, because you better believe Arizona will be there! Lute! I tawked to Coach Olson just the other day, and he was raving to me about Loren Woods now that he's back from his suspension. Jason Gardner, too, this guy can flat out play. You need a point to get to the tourney, and Gardner can dish the rock with the best...