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...humdrum work of a tax collector. "Henri Rousseau: Jungles in Paris," at Tate Modern until Feb. 5, is the first major exhibit of his work in London for nearly 80 years. It brings together paintings from Europe, Japan and the U.S., and showcases his imagined foreign scenes and modest, less well-known landscapes. A wealth of documentary material illuminates the way he synthesized his jungles of the mind. The show will travel to the Grand Palais, Paris, and the National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rousseau burst upon the art world in 1891 with Surprised!, the first of his jungle pictures...
Compared to the aristocratic homes of other U.S. founding fathers, Benjamin Franklin's house at 36 Craven Street in London is downright modest. George Washington inhabited a grand estate at Mount Vernon, Virginia, and Thomas Jefferson built Monticello, an elegant mansion, in the same state. But for 15 years, Franklin was a tenant in a simple four-story Georgian brick row house on a street off the Strand near Trafalgar Square. The house's interior is handsome but spare, reflecting the thrifty nature of the man who popularized the proverb, "A penny saved is a penny earned...
...finishing his new movie about the aftermath of the massacre at the Munich Olympics, Steven Spielberg talked with TIME movie critic Richard Schickel, who collaborated with him on the TV documentary Shooting War, about his reasons for taking on Munich, his anger at the International Olympic Committee and his modest plan for improving Arab-Israeli relations...
...note that clothes are optional at Esalen's baths, and the use of open archways?rather than doors?to separate bathing areas tends to promote mingling, not privacy. But the more modest among you can rest assured that in these rarefied, New Age surrounds, the atmosphere is no more salacious than that of a Japanese onsen. And chances are there will be few other bathers around in the middle of the night. In fact, if you're very lucky, you might even have the bathing complex all to yourself. Now that really would be a trip...
...following the wedding. The president embraced his mother, Anita A. Summers, as members of both families greeted each other on the steps of the Fogg. The museum, home to the University’s prized collections of early Renaissance and Impressionist artwork, was transformed for the evening into a modest reception hall in the main foyer that hosted an assortment of the couple’s friends, family, and colleagues. The boldface names of Harvard’s administrative ranks were almost all in attendance, having trudged through the snow-sloshed streets of the Square to the five...