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...rare books, and it is valued at close to $200 million. It ranges from the bejeweled, beribboned portraits of the Elizabethan period onward to the nobly blooded horses of George Stubbs. Its special strength lies in the richest period of British art, the years between the birth of Hogarth (1697) and the death of Turner (1851). Added to Yale's already strong holdings in 18th century British history and literature, the museum makes New Haven one of the most important centers for British studies outside of England. Yale, understandably, is cocky as an Eton dandy...
...different idea of flash. The floor of his pool has a huge erotic painting. He has one of L.A.'s most extensive collections of pornography. Perched atop a ridge, Mayall's $230,000 house has a Tudor-style living room festooned with saddles and snakeskins. But Hogarth prints lead up winding stairs to a large alphabetized porn library...
...wrote two novels, Night and Day and Jacob's Room, which secured her reputation, and revised a third, The Voyage Out. Almost weekly she reviewed for the Times Literary Supplement, composing superb little essays. She married Leonard Woolf ("Precious Mongoose" in her letters) and with him founded the Hogarth Press, for which she functioned as chief talent scout and reader of manuscripts as well as typesetter (on the dining-room table). During this decade the press published, among other titles, Prelude by Katherine Mansfield, Poems by T.S. Eliot and Story of the Siren by E.M. Forster...
...Beggar's Opera. John Gay's bawdy 1728 parody of Italian light opera, done as a series of Hogarth prints come to life. At the Adams House Dining Hall, April 8-10, 16 and 17, at 8:30 p.m. Tickets...
...between Garry Trudeau and Eric Sevareid, say Doonesbury fans with some hyperbole, is that Sevareid cannot draw. But then, neither can Trudeau. An indifferent draftsman, the artist is usually just good enough to strike an attitude or sink a platitude. But at his best, Trudeau manages to be a Hogarth in a hurry, a satirist who brings political comment back to the comic pages...