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Rockefeller Professor of Oriental Art Emeritus Max Loehr, 84, died September 16 at St. Joseph's Hospital in Nashua, New Hampshire. Loehr's emphasis on style revolutionized the interpretation of Chinese art through the course of a career that spanned a half-century, his colleagues said.
"Max Loehr not only substantially contributed to the substance of our knowledge, but he also methodologically revised the ways in which we do research," said Robert D. Mowry, who is associate curator of Oriental art at the Sackler Museum. "His contributions were not only to Harvard but to the entire...
O.K., lissena this. Richard Condon useta write very funny stuff, right up there with George V. Higgins, but lately there is too much stuff and not enough funny. Mainly, this third book of the Prizzi series, about the good-guy Mafia assassin Charley Partanna, needs a dose of bran. In...
As part of a resort-industry trend toward offering action-oriented vacations, the Hyatt-Waikoloa boasts a fleet of paddle boats plying a four- acre lagoon and trams traveling over wildlife preserves. For the less adventuresome: seven restaurants, twelve bars and a mile-long gallery of Oriental art. The resort...
Shakespeare is admirably served at the R.S.C. by an unstintingly gory Titus Andronicus, a Twelfth Night that underscores the play's dialectic between religious piety and hedonism and a Merchant of Venice that stars Anthony Sher as an unabashedly Levantine Shylock. Sher's lilting cadence, bushy beard, flowing robes and...