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...kids are really lucky. They're growing up in at least five cultures: the traditional Yemeni at their grandmother's the Orthodox shtieble on the corner, Israel every summer, my friends from the Institute of Social Analysis and Greenwich Village, and our black neighborhood. That combination is just about unbeatable...
...ever produced. During his quarter-century of service as Surveyor of the King's Works (from 1615 under James I and from 1625 to 1641 under Charles I), he acquired a Bernini-like authority. Through the example of his most famous buildings, such as the Queen's House in Greenwich and the Banqueting Hall in Whitehall -- which, with its ceiling paintings by Rubens, is one of the grandest collaborations of talent in the 17th century -- Jones guided English architecture out of its Elizabethan mannerism. He led it into an Italian grandeur and amplitude, based on Roman and Venetian models...
...seemed like a fine time. She was out of school, hanging out in Greenwich Village, and Charlie Parker was teaching her to sing. "Not that Charlie Parker," Phoebe Snow says now, but still, this was a time of awakening. At the urging of Parker, her "first boyfriend," Snow was beginning to experiment with the crystalline grace of her four-octave voice, getting a grip on her crippling shyness, actually starting to perform. She made a debut album, she had a hit, she was on her way. Then her luck faded...
...Crimson next competes in an NCAA qualifying tournament next weekend in East Greenwich...
Until recently the clientele for Sun workstations has consisted mainly of scientists and engineers. But gradually other users in search of higher performance have been attracted to the machines. The Houston Chronicle has 65 Sun computers in place for its printers and artists, and will soon add 35 more; Greenwich Capital, a Connecticut bond-trading firm, uses five dozen Sun machines...