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...tale characters are either all good or all bad. In this case, they are both. A gruff woodsman (George Dzundza) narrates the tale with the accent of a Borscht Belt comedian. "I gotta great princess for you," he tells the prince. "A dowry you wouldn't believe." Jeremy Kagan's fluid, floaty direction pays visual homage to the sensuous style of Book Illustrator Kay Nielsen. Like all of Duvall's slightly fractured tales, Sleeping Beauty gives a slightly campy twist to a classic without demeaning...
...took a lot of doing. He enlisted the help of the Prado Museum. Washington's National Gallery Director J. Carter Brown, Scholars William Jordan at the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Jonathan Brown at New York University's Institute of Fine Arts, and Richard Kagan of Johns Hopkins. They begged and borrowed at museums ranging from Oslo to San Francisco; in the end nearly half of the 66 works came from Spain, either from the Prado or the Toledo museum, and none of these have ever been seen in the U.S. before. The resulting show, the largest...
...there are novelty seekers whose work resembles sculpture more than furniture. Leading them is Vladimir Kagan, 55, many of whose sofas, desks, chairs and bedroom furnishings are custom-made with Plexiglas, marble, bronze, leather, lacquer or textiles. Kagan's work lacks the devout simplicity of pure crafts manship and often looks as though it had been swiped from the set of Fellini's La Dolce Vita...
...Girls usually score lower than boys on tests of this skill, which is considered to be important in higher mathematics, physics and engineering. The study, say the authors, suggests that androgens are "essential to the full development of spatial ability." This conclusion is challenged, however, by Harvard Psychologist Jerome Kagan, who feels the test scores are better explained by social factors. "Women are more likely than men to give up or try less hard on spatial tests, because they do not believe that spatial talent is part of their repertoire," he argues. Similarly, men who do not experience normal puberty...
Water filters used by smokers to remove impure substances from marijuana probably do not remove Aspergillus because the fungus "loves damp areas," Kagan said...