Word: homering
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...really think that it's a piece of legislation that's going to make our lives a lot harder, when they are hard enough already," says Director of Student Employment Martha H. Homer. "It is virtually impossible for an illegal alien to work here...
...Homer and others in her office are now laying out concrete plans to deal with the bureaucratic nightmare that the law is rapidly becoming to the college...
...stiff but historically interesting Porthole Portrait of George Washington and Samuel Morse's The Gallery of the Louvre to a good Eakins, a vigorous Mary Cassatt of boaters feeding ducks, and a set of admirable monotypes by Maurice Prendergast. There is also some very minor work by famous names (Homer, Martin Johnson Heade, John Frederick Kensett) and a plethora of those 1890s contre-jour pictures of nice Boston girls in flowing chiffon scarves -- genteel provincial salon painting that has been revived as a market craze for investors now that the supply of Childe Hassams and the like is running...
...from Terra's twofold conviction that American 18th and 19th century art was as good as any in Europe, and that snobbery keeps this from the public, so that Americans do not know their own artistic heritage. The first proposition is flat wrong, granted a few exceptions like Copley, Homer and Eakins; the second is dubious...
...until then, 20-homer hitters will have to be on the lookout for frustrated pitchers--and those in the bleacher seats won't have to strain to look in the dugouts and see who's on the bench...