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Foreword: Everyone reading this should stop. Go buy a CD called The Modern Lovers. It'll be about $8 with tax; it's always in the bargain bin over at Newbury Comics. If you care in the least about rock and roll, you should own this album...
Radcliffe College may be having an identity crisis, but The Bunting Institute is still providing top-notch academic discussions for the interested outsider. This week, historian Ann Blair presents a colloquium on "Coping with Information Overload: Encyclopedic Reference Works in Early Modern Europe." Followed by a Brown Bag Lunch discussion on Thursday. Wednesday 4 p.m., Thursday 12:30 to 2 p.m., The Bunting Institute, 34 Concord Ave., Cambridge, 495-8212, FREE...
...that means paleontologists everywhere are going to have to rethink the whole spinosaur family of dinosaur that Suchomimus belonged to. Is he the direct ancestor of modern crocodiles, for example? He has pretty much the same jaw and teeth: "It was built for snaring and swallowing," said Sereno. Strangely enough, with all that equipment, Suchomimus did nothing more dominant than hunt for fish. But if you think that makes him a weenie, just remember: The body Sereno found was not even fully grown...
...praises Richard Serra's monumental "sculptures" that required "tanker technology" and steel-milled plates [ART, Oct. 19]. If Hughes wants to see large pieces of steel, put him on the subway to the outer reaches of New York harbor, where he can watch ships pass through the Verrazano Narrows. Modern art is the biggest practical joke in history, and Hughes has fallen for it. The true artists are the ironworkers and shipwrights who build today's floating monsters. GARRY JAFFE Chicago...
VINCENT VAN GOGH Hip in D.C., square in N.Y.C. Museum of Modern Art drops him: he's "no longer modern...