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...inspires Vermeer, publishers have rushed in with titles like Christopher Peachment's Caravaggio; Will Davenport's The Painter, about Rembrandt; and Mario Vargas Llosa's The Way to Paradise, about Gauguin. As a rule, the books are intelligent, sometimes even ingenious, but in most, the underlying formula is plain: art plus sex. So Chevalier's new best seller, The Lady and the Unicorn, features Nicolas des Innocents, painter, tapestry designer and Renaissance stud--a guy who puts the pig in pigment...
...mother of three who has been disabled by multiple sclerosis, a disease without a cure. Most of the medical help I've received over the past 17 years has come from advances achieved by the drug industry. For those of us who are ill, disabled or just plain old, it is the drug companies that offer genuine hope. And it is hard to put a price on hope. MIMI AMBROSE SMITH Annandale...
...Nothing at all has been done to ?Swiss Family Treehouse,? perhaps because you can neither improve nor ruin such a plain, simple attraction. I used to like ?Treehouse,? but today I can?t figure out why. Perhaps because I liked the book as a boy. As for my kids, Caroline didn?t quite get it, while Mary Grace and Jack seemed to feel it was a pleasant walk with Mommy and Daddy, but hardly a patch on ?The Magic Carpets of Alladin,? which they adjudged the equal of ?Dumbo.? That?s high acclaim...
...background noise in our lives. We listen to music on headphones as we walk to class; we read as we eat meals; and we talk on the cell phone as we drive to work, sipping scalding hot coffee all the while—this, as it happens, is just plain dangerous. I’m as much a culprit as the next guy—right now, I’m drinking a cup of cocoa (with marshmallows) and listening to music (Dismemberment Plan’s “Change”) as I write...
Most Harvard hockey followers, this one included, failed to account from the role that Dominic Moore ’03 and Brett Nowak ’03 played. Both were dynamic offensive players, capable of involving linemates, creating their own shot or just plain old finishing...