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When Bill Clinton was phoning world leaders the day after he won the election, he made a point of placing a call, right after talking with Britain's John Major, to a farm in Worthington, Massachusetts. He wanted to thank Tony Lake, described by a campaign aide as the "heart...
A revisionist western. Unforgiven questions the rules of a macho genre, summing up and maybe atoning for the flinty violence that made Eastwood famous. Frontier life was no idyll; it was filth and boredom punctuated by dumb gunplay. Manhood: why, that's just male vanity, and women can be mutilated...
Robb lives deep in Arkansas' Ozark Mountains, off a dirt road that winds through the defunct hamlet of Zinc, past dilapidated mobile homes, rusting farm equipment and rocky pastureland. Chickens and goats pause in the road along Sugar Orchard Creek, and neighbors glare warily at unfamiliar visitors. The Grand Wizard...
The word classicist today suggests pedantry. To the best minds of the Italian Renaissance it meant discovery and impassioned curiosity. We are too hobbled by provincialism in time to be able to goad ourselves into the excitement with which Mantegna and other Italian artists, architects and writers of the 15th...
The Boston Conservatory Orchestra--with Ronald Feldman, conductor, performs Beethoven's Symphony No. 6 and Wagner's "Siegfried-Idyll." In Seully Hall, 8 The Fenway, at 8 p.m. on Friday.