Word: hoppers
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Simon spends several months a year in Los Angeles, a necessity for his film career, and the rest in Manhattan, which he calls home. The ten-room Los Angeles dwelling, of white brick and wood, houses an extensive collection of modern art (including works by Modigliani and Edward Hopper) and sits above three tiers of terraces, with the obligatory swimming pool on the bottom tier, although Simon does not swim. He is a passionate tennis player, yet the house has no tennis court. "First you wind up providing the balls, then the Cokes?there's no end to it," Simon...
...night. They'd heard on the radio that the Soviets had just put the Sputnik spacecraft into orbit. "We thought, We can build a rocket,'' Arneth says. Commandeering a welder, they made a long cylinder from three 44-gallon drums, then rigged up a nose cone from an old hopper. "They got an old car seat and put that in the drum, and then they went looking for an astronaut,'' Arneth recalls. A runty stockman was chosen and inserted, too drunk to protest, into the cramped cockpit. In case he got thirsty on the moon, the men hung a water...
...listeners alike.For starters, the event, held in the small confines of Harvard Square’s Massive Records, is slated to begin at 5 p.m.—well before dark. Despite the uncharacteristic warmth, blazers are more prevalent than wife-beaters. Wordy, intellectual rhymes from underground hip-hopper Busdriver pipe through the speakers before the show. A freshman proctor has come to watch the battle. Nonetheless, anticipation is still high. The show was coordinated by The Darker Side (TDS)—WHRB’s hip-hop program. Before the show, Sam D. G. Jacoby...
...next generation of watercolorists further redefined the bounds of the sub-genre. As Europeans like Kandinsky, Miró, and Klee experimented with abstract watercolor composition, American artists were “rediscovering and searching for their roots in the early watercolorists,” said Stebbins. Edward Hopper, Georgia O’Keeffe, Charles Demuth and John Marin—all early experimenters with realism, abstraction and modernism—took on the yoke previously worn by Sargent and Homer...
...Hopper, who is the subject of an upcoming show at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts, abandoned the familiar natural beauty of Adirondack ponds and the glory of Venice but pursued the realist tradition with stark but tender scenes inspired by daily life. Demuth—with his trademark sparse but concentrated application of color—turned to a cubist-influenced realism, as is evident in his entrancing “Fruit and Sunflowers?...