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...folk art forms, and are said to be based on figures from the Hindu Ramayana and Mahabharata epics. You'll also find plenty of work by expatriate artists who have called Bali home over the years, including Rudolf Bonnet and Arie Smit. SENIWATI GALLERY OF ART BY WOMEN This gem of a gallery, tel: (62-361) 975-485, displays a broad selection of painting, pottery and weaving from more than 40 female artists worldwide. But its main focus is on female painters from Bali itself, and on their characteristically dark orange-, brown- and golden-hued work...
...rise and fall of a man whose lust for power betrays his best instincts. Ikiru 1952; Akira Kurosawa In his final days, a government functionary discovers the joy of living. Kurosawa, justly celebrated for his muscular action spectacles, achieves a delicate and totally unsentimental irony in this small, glowing gem of a movie. Persona 1966; Ingmar Bergman A famous actress falls silent, unable to speak of and to the world's brutalities and banalities. Her nurse fills the emptiness with chipper chatter, eventually talking herself into her patient's tragic view. Bergman has never been more bleak, austere, enigmatic...
...Cambridge’s independent theaters, has eclectic offerings, from a documentary on the Tibetan people to foreign films to movies from the 1970s and 1980s. The regular prices are $10 or less, but the student discounts make tickets even cheaper. The Harvard Book Store is another gem, with its ever-friendly staff and helpful suggestions on the next book to read. Veggie Planet, aside from having fantastic pizza, also has live band performances...
...Gem, Kans., where the three-story, hollowed-out brick Public School 21 looms over rows of abandoned homes, about all that's left functioning in the business district is, again, a grain elevator and a severely weathered tiny wooden post office with the ever present wind whipping an American flag out front. A rusting sign recalls better times: RESERVED FOR U.S. MAIL VEHICLES--as if there's any competition for a parking spot...
...when he was in his early 30s. His decision to break off his engagement to Mary Todd had left him devastated, not only because he had hurt Mary but also because he had long considered his ability to keep his word "as the only, or at least the chief, gem of [his] character." Now he could no longer trust himself in that regard...