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...sympathize with anyone who each year must watch 300 new movies, many of them junk. This may explain why Auntie Lee's Meat Pies, Lucky Stiff, Homer & Eddie and Closet Land -- films that barely achieved theatrical release -- are among the targets of Medved's dudgeon. It also leads him to catalog, in avid detail, outrages of manners in the movies. Who else would think to tabulate recent films with scenes of vomiting (36) or urination...
Higbie will be teaching four courses this year: Greek 103, "Hesiod" and Greek 105, "Aristophanes" this semester, and Latin 104, "Ovid" and Greek 4, "Selections from Homer's Iliad" in the spring...
Higbie's own interests center on the history of oral literature, Homeric poetry in particular. She is the author of two books, "Measure and Music: Enjambement and Sentence Structure in the Iliad" (1990), and the forthcoming "Patterns of Naming in Homer...
Their gods were Manet, Daumier, Goya and Hals; among Americans, Homer and Eakins. None were more direct than Bellows, who in the peak years of his youth became the entranced recorder of New York, the "real" city of tough mudlarking kids, of crowded tenements and teeming icy streets, of big bridges and sudden breaks in the wall of buildings that revealed tugboats and a dragging tide...
Nevertheless, some of Bellows' finest paintings were set on an island at the farthest possible remove from Manhattan: Monhegan, on the Maine coast, where his idol Winslow Homer had also painted. Though born and raised in Ohio, Bellows had coastal roots -- his grandfather was a whaler at Montauk on the eastern tip of New York's Long Island -- and the Atlantic was as fundamental a source of imaginative nourishment to him as it had been to Melville or Whitman. "We two and the great sea," he wrote to his wife in a moment of romantic exaltation, "and the mighty rocks...