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...windmill at Wijk bij Duurstede, the most famous picture by Jacob van Rhuisdael, appears in his first retrospective exhibition which opened at the Fogg Art Museuem yesterday. Ruisdael is widely recognized as the greatest Dutch landscape painter, and over one hundred masterworks by the seventeenth-century painter are on loan from museums and private collections throughout the world. Seymore Slive, director of the Fogg, spent four years preparing the exhibition and has published a book on Ruisdael to accompany...
Joseph, of course, is one of the stars of the Book of Genesis, so favored by his doting father Jacob that his jealous brothers plot against him and sell him into slavery in Egypt. But Joseph has more comebacks than Richard Nixon, and soon he is Pharaoh's deputy, the man who can read dreams and who keeps Egypt prospering through good years and bad. His triumph comes when his brothers, who have not shared his good fortunes, arrive begging for food. Joseph forgives them-this is the Bible, after all-and the curtain descends on a happy ending...
Hebrew University Physiologist Jacob Steiner told the scientists that all tastes and smells accelerate the heart rates of adolescents. A sweet taste speeds the heart by 2% or 3%, bitter and sour tastes race the pulse 17% to 20% faster. Steiner, in long-term test studies of infants, discovered that first reactions to smells are inborn, not acquired. Newborns react positively to pleasant odors and screw up their faces in response to unpleasant ones, even before they have tasted any food...
...fall series of presentations, the Boston Film/Video Foundation is screening Thursday night at Huntington Hall at MIT the premiere of John Lindquist Photographer of the Dance by Boston filmmakers Bob Brodsky and Toni Treadway. The film concerns the 42-year career of the staff photographer of the Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, and is part of a benefit program for Jacob's Pillow and the Film/Video Foundation. The program also includes a performance by Lotte Goslar and her Pantomime Circus. Tickets are $10 for students...
...Jacob Lamar plays the young Black man, swift and fierce, something of a swashbuckler, full of lashing motion. David Reiffle, the elderly shopkeeper, settles into counteracting stubborness and stolidity, wrapping himself in a faint German accent...