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...covered with photographs, and music from the Buena Vista Social Club plays softly in the background. Excerpts from Falconi’s correspondence with both artists are printed in Spanish next to some of the photographs, reminding viewers how rooted the exhibition is in Harvard’s close-knit Latin American community...
...artists are different," says Guo Haiping, a crew-cut painter and restaurateur in his 30s. "We're not like those serious, solitary-minded Beijing or Shanghai artists." In a country where contemporary art is often politically sensitive and inaccessible, Nanjing's recent crop of modernists stands out. Their tightly knit community is committed to bringing art?and a bit of humor?to the common people...
Fiore said he expanded the operation while maintaining a close-knit working environment...
...telephone has done more than diplomats, clergymen or scientists to knit the world together. Taken for granted by kings and butchers alike, it is an indispensable companion that serves without favor or prejudice. It has reached into every civilized corner of the world--and often brought civilization with it. From its wires spring the words of history in the making, the chatter of daily life. English Novelist Arnold Bennett called it "the proudest and the most poetical achievement of the American people"...Millions of Americans pick up the telephone to get the weather or the correct time, shopping news, stock...
...actually large dolphins) are highly social creatures. They travel in pods that can be several hundred strong, usually led by a dominant male. If the leader loses his way while hunting a favorite food like squid, the rest of the pod will follow, even onto a beach. The closely knit whales will also converge on a calf that has accidentally grounded and is clicking and squeaking in anguish. In neither case, however, do scientists regard the whales' behavior as a suicide impulse. "That's old folklore," insists Joseph Geraci of the National Aquarium in Baltimore, Md., "and should be forgotten...