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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...later--three months!--Ben Affleck becomes her rebound man. A short while later, he gets spit out on Santa Monica Boulevard by the Gwynesaurus, and she macs on Guy Oseary, a Madonna ex-flame. She's becoming one of those celebrities who has an automatic apositive phrase with her list of ex-lovers after her name. (And poor Ben! Once the poster child of masculinity, he's been turned into a sniveling idiot by the One Woman Love Machine. He still buys her diamonds and expensive gifts and tries to be her best friend; she gladly uses them and loses...
...Every parent should see the list of people who lived in their child's room in the past, and think about the fact that a hundred years from now, some other parent will be handed a similar list and might say, 'Gee! Mary Jones lived in this room!'" Lewis wrote...
...subway ("It must be grand to be a student with nothing to do but listen to professors, read in libraries, sit under campus trees and discuss what you're learning.") McCourt talks his way into New York University by giving an admissions officer a sampling of his reading list, heavy on Dostoyevsky and Melville, with a smattering of Tolstoy...
Number one on the "to not do" list is droning. Slide presentations are a formality. Students attend the presentations to speak with representatives, greet old friends, gather pamphlets, and maybe to leave with a new mug. Short presentations will make a better impression than long ones; chances are that students will tune out after the fourth pie chart...
...Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. But the MFA's frustrating lack of commitment to contemporary art leaves a diffuse network of university galleries and miscellaneous non-profits picking up the slack. Fantastic exhibitions are hidden away in odd corners, most reliably at the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), the List Visual Arts Center and the Rose Art Museum. A new sculpture park is in the works at the Univeristy of Massachusetts at Boston, under the very ambitious direction of art historian Paul Tucker. Pieces by Richard Serra, Nancy Holt and Ursula von Rydingsvard should be coming in within the next year...