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While serving on the Undergraduate Council may look like an ideal way to give back to the campus, it is actually a highly efficient way to earn the absolute disrespect of everyone you meet. Join the council, spend four years discussing the lack of Faculty diversity and graduate to an illustrious career in the Rhode Island state legislature. Have...
...numerous notebooks he kept, and the manifesto of this belief (not, alas, in this show) is The Painter's Triumph, 1838. It depicts Mount himself in a mood of exaltation, flourishing his palette and brushes and pointing out a detail of a painting to his ideal viewer--not a New York "conosher" but a farmer in a straw hat who still holds the buggy whip with which he has, presumably, driven in from Long Island. On the wall behind, a drawing of the head of Apollo is looking haughtily away from this populist scene...
ANNE FRANK's family, when in hiding, lived in less than ideal conditions, so it's not surprising that Anne's parents' marriage had its ignoble moments. Nor is it surprising that what Frank wrote about such moments did not make the final version of her much loved and much published diary. The discovery of five previously unknown pages of Anne's writings, which are reportedly "very critical" of her parents' relationship, nevertheless sent shock waves through the publishing world. The pages are being held by a former employee of the Anne Frank Foundation, who says OTTO FRANK, the only...
...vacationing tightwads like me, the Web is the ideal solution. Trip-planning sites can offer immediate information that software, print maps and even GPS devices lack. At weather.com for instance, you get a forecast for your projected route. (My favorite among these kinds of sites is Intellicast's Golfcast, which has among its many real-time forecasts weather maps that show "hazardous" conditions at golf courses.) At www.freetrip.com you can request a list of motels, restaurants, tourist traps and even military facilities en route. Note to inventors: what we really need is an affordable satellite link to the Web. That...
...also a Deco dream--a svelte, elegant evocation of the Normandie and other ships from the misty past. As Walt's Disneyland created a Main Street that was homogenized from some small-town, never-never ideal, Michael's Magic reimagines the swank of transatlantic liners. The cabins, larger than those on competing lines, are handsomely appointed, with burled-wood paneling and dressers shaped like steamer trunks. Don't bother trying to pick up that silver-plated knickknack in a stateroom niche; it's glued to the shelf...