Word: mosses
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...most telling physical landmark of the restaurant, however, is the immense, brightly colored mural in the style of Diego Rivera which wraps around behind the bar and open kitchen. In it, merry people amuse themselves beneath strands of Spanish moss, dangling over the fancy wrought-iron balconies and balustrades of Southern gothic buildings. All drink and laugh profusely, and all are glaringly white. The image is a perfect metaphor for the cuisine. Magnolias strives to emulate New Orleans, but a piece of its heart will always be in New Canaan...
...broken--and often. In the Square, we find the interruption that is modern Holyoke Center, as well as the glass front of what is now BankBoston. The Signet is of clapboard, University Hall of stone, and Widener's steps of granite. Grass defines the Yard and the Quad, and moss creeps through the cracks of the sidewalk. Asphalt covers all the streets, and white-washed something-or-other coats William James. But throughout, there is a sense of brick. It is Harvard's theme, perhaps lifted from Oxford or Cambridge, and made into further kitsch by scores of Ivy-admiring...
...body (other than that of a stick) will not be able to fit into them. For the sake of women all over the world and their health, this critic dares to ask--can centuries of master artists be wrong? Let the Three Muses dance uninhibitedly, as Kate Moss and everyone on "Ally MacBeal" chows down on some Haagen Dasz...
...youngest 1997 recipient of a MacArthur "genius" award. Walker's Harvard installation was originally presented at the Renaissance Society in Chicago, but here she takes full advantage of the Carpenter Center's lobby to surround viewers with a parade of figures under floating Spanish moss and cotton bolls...
DIED. JOHN MOSS, 84, watchdog California Congressman, 1953-79, who authored the 1966 Freedom of Information Act; in San Francisco. Ever on the lookout for government misdeeds, Moss also rigorously defended the First Amendment, the environment (the 1970 Clean Air Act) and consumer rights...