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...rate, the teenage and penniless F.H. found his way to Ellsworth and prospered there, somehow buying and selling farms and houses, building and operating a three-story hotel called the Orient, a shingle mill, a hardware store and a waterworks, and donating land for a station when the railroad came through in '92. That was the year he and two other men paid a surveyor to plot out the town. That year -- and any other, according to a town history -- he was good for a suit of clothes, or a railroad ticket, or the rent money, when someone was down...
...clickety-clack of wheels on track, you have time to dream. You can find yourself or lose yourself as the cars rock along. Hollywood has long understood the state of suspended animation on the tracks. It has used the train to evoke adventure, mystery and romance in films like Orient Express and North by Northwest...
...should he have gone to North Africa, a part of the world that Frenchmen in 1912 were still apt to generalize as "the Orient"? There were two basic reasons: cultural curiosity and the search for light...
...Matisse's pictorial motives differed from those of all European artists who had visited "the Orient" before. French painters from the 1830s on, starting with Eugene Delacroix, had gone there in search of the picturesque, the exotic, the ready-made subject: mosques and Riffian horsemen, camels and harem slaves. By 1880 Orientalism had become a large fashion among salon painters and their clients. French artists brought their minutely realist style and their mildly prurient interests to Fez and Marrakech, and went back to Paris with both intact. To be influenced as a painter by Islamic art -- architecture, rugs, tiles, cloth...
...give its visitors such ominous advice? The surprising source is the New York Daily News, which bills itself as New York's Hometown Paper. The News has spent the past year preparing for the possibility of a multiunion strike by seeking "replacement workers" from around the U.S. To orient its out-of-town talent to life in the wilds of Manhattan, the News is preparing a guidebook that portrays a vision of the city dramatically at odds with the paper's public boosterism...