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...failure to clean up Boston Harbor. But last June, President Bush played Scrooge at the Earth Summit in Brazil. In September he visited timber country in the Pacific Northwest, where he promised to lift a court-imposed injunction that has halted logging in federally owned ancient forests. His Interior Department is planning to open national forests to private strip mining. What happened between 1988 and 1992? Politics happened...
...world of Fauvism at Collioure in the south of France; in the great "decorative" paintings of 1908-12 like Conversation; in the astoundingly bare and mysterious French Window at Collioure, 1914; and so on to the palm tree that, like a firework in the garden, fills the window of Interior with an Egyptian Curtain, 1948, its explosive light seeming to cast an inky black shadow under the bowl of fruit. The room is culture; the window frames nature; it is a kind of picture-within-a-picture, another trope that Matisse was partial...
Matisse was the heir to an entire, and in his time still viable, tradition of European painting. Conversation is, on one level, an intimate interior -- the painter in his pajamas chatting with Mme. Matisse in her chair. But its hieratic grandeur irresistibly puts you in mind of an Annunciation, with angel (though wingless) and Madonna. In particular Matisse inherited the pastoral mode, replete with allegory. He refers to the poetry of his time -- Baudelaire, Mallarme -- with the same sense of possession and community that Renaissance painters like Lotto, Giorgione or Titian did to Ovid's Metamorphoses. As the figures...
...thought "Pat's Towing Service" would be a big parking lot with hundreds of impounded cars stretching all the way to Framingham. But the reality was even scarier. The towing operation is housed in a very gothic-looking brick building that looks like something out of "The Munsters. "The interior of the building is dark and oily. Broken down and smashed automobiles line the entry. And then you meet...
Boylston Hall, covered with workers for most of the summer, has had many of its first floor windows bricked over, its interior cleaned out and renovation done to the interior including new carpeting...