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Webster worked in Leverett for three weeks and painted three colossal canvases. Everyone living in Leverett was invited to a meeting to vote on which picture to keep. Dowling might maintain that if you don't like the painting, blame the alumni. But house lore has it that the three paintings were strikingly similar. Judging by the winner, the selection must have been grim...
...road trip began with a game Friday night in Philadelphia and an inspirational stop at the steps of the Philadelphia Art Museum, where Rocky ran into movie fame and fictional boxing lore...
...then destroy their confidence to the point that they lose self-respect and likely become resentful of the system that encouraged them. Certainly any program that provides an alternative to the streets is better than nothing, but ideally an inner-city youth program wouldn't rely on the lore of the American basketball star for its appeal...
Stanford senior Romesh Ratnesar earned a place in intern lore by finishing one workday in the Business section at 8 a.m., having spent the previous 22 hours juggling three assignments, including fact checking a late-breaking story about the now defunct CBS-QVC deal. Ratnesar's comment on the episode typifies the enthusiasm that all the interns have injected into our working lives this summer. Says he: "You hardly notice the time...
Script doctors have been in demand since the late '20s, when Hollywood made pictures talk. The industry still feeds on lore about how some films' most indelible scenes -- say, the final words of A Star Is Born ("Mrs. Norman Maine") or Casablanca ("Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship") -- were the last-minute inspirations of uncredited writers or producers. Or about how David O. Selznick, in the middle of making Gone With the Wind, closed down production and asked writer Ben Hecht to save the picture. Hecht cobbled a few scenes, urged Selznick to adhere more...