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...special kind of character to stay in a village when the rest of the world is rushing off to the city. Besides the occasional grandchild on holiday, no young people populate the lovely countryside. Bachelors predominate: there is the entrepreneur known as The Shah, who resolutely refuses marriage; Patrick Ryan, a gruff builder; Bill Evans, a survivor of Ireland’s horrific orphanages, who made it into old age quiet and strangely asexual. Gentle, blithe Jamesie and his wife Mary have grandchildren faraway in Dublin, while their friends Ruttledge and Kate, transplants from London, are childless. Because...
Everyone in the village knows that close by runs a world of factories and unemployment; a little further out, migrations, cities, anonymity. To live in peace, characters create a space small enough to feel snug but wide enough to see clearly. Take, for instance, the exchange between Patrick Ryan and Ruttledge as they are erecting the rafters of a shed...
...long as they hold the iron, lad, they’ll do,” Patrick Ryan laughed sympathetically...
...course, there were some individual works of merit that managed to stand out, including Kara Walker’s recent aggressive charcoal drawings (Brent Sikkema, New York); Serse’s stunning pencil drawing (Galleria Continua, San Gimignano); Patrick Jacob’s viewing lens “The Ortho Rooms, Dandelions” (Pierogi, Brooklyn); and Jee Sung Lee’s striking black and white ink jet print “Connect” (Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago). Perhaps unfortunately, the Armory Show’s environment of an art fair is less than a conducive setting...
Coleman started out as promised, hitting double figures in points in seven out of Harvard’s first ten games and settling into the role of the team’s second offensive option behind junior guard Patrick Harvey. But once the Ivy League season began, the 6’8 Coleman got lost in the offense and his output sputtered...