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...cloak and dagger for a trust fund and pocket calculator. Ambler's 15 earlier tales of espionage and intrigue created a shadow world of border crossings and doublecrosses that was both distinctly his own and widely (and successfully) imitated. Such younger writers as John Le Carré and Len Deighton are firmly in the Ambler tradition. The Siege of the Villa Lipp tries a new route. The most imaginative shady deals, it says, are no longer concocted by world-weary agents and conniving government bureaucrats but by jet-hopping financiers. Ambler's latest hero...
Take tri-captain Todd Hooks, for example. Yesterday he was Harvard's version of the Six Million Dollar Man. In the early events of the afternoon, Hooks blazed to a meet record finish in the sprint relay along with teammates Joe Salvo, Len Reynolds and Ralph Polillio. But Hooks later took a hard tumble on the last hurdle of the highs as Paul Organ set another meet record...
...five--Mitch Epstein, Thomas Germano, Leo Rubinfein, Len Jenshel and David Wing--are remarkably young (all under 30), and perhaps for that reason the process of their experimentation, study and growth positively illuminates their work. These still photographs show these artists moving forward. Now masters of technique, free of the supporting framework in which one learns the art of photography, they have not yet put themselves into any stylistic box. Lifson seems to have wanted to exhibit their searchings almost as much as their achievements: "I wanted to show students where they might be in three or four years...
Previews of this show, opening Thursday from 5-7 p.m. promise that it contains the most exciting photographs to have been shown at Harvard in a long time. Mitch Epstein, Thomas Germano, Len Jenstel, Leo Rubinfein and David Wing are young (under 30) but precociously talented artists who won't be unknowns much longer, judging by the genius of their work. Using a camera of their own invention, they have gone searching for the facts of existence with a vision that intensifies that existence. Masters of the photographic medium, the five possess perceptions that can take what appear...
...professional athletes are concerned, I have no mercy. A man making $200,000 per season should be able to take the heat, be he a Len Dawson or an Alex Karras. But collegiate athletes are different...