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...Biblical Garden: Paintings and drawings by Carol Lerner, The Visitor Center, Jamaica Plain, through...
...agenda of the show is plain, and who could object to it? It is a fund raiser, aimed at drumming up more American support for that collectively unique, financially insecure, historically indispensable phenomenon, the Stately Home. These country houses, once the center of political power in a society where wealth was reckoned in acreage and rent-rolls, make up an endangered species today. Everyone wants to look at them; in 1984 the historic houses of Britain received 45 million visitors. Four out of five were British, which shows a public loyalty to haunts of privilege that Engels might have found...
...slightly mocking sensuality from the pun between the depicted work of the cake icer--smearing those layers of sweet goo, drawing arabesques with the forcing bag--and the literal work of the painter's brush. A very conscious part of his style is the way he rings his forms (plain geometrical ones, as a rule: rectangles, cones, cylinders) with zips of relieving color, orange, yellow or vermilion. When these work--and often they are little more than a graphic mannerism--they lend his images an indefinable air of instability, an apparitional flicker, a distant cousin of the twitching, fluttering profiles...
Harvard approached the Town of Weston last spring with the offer to sell the property as a fundraiser for Harvard's financially-troubled Arnold Arboretum. The Arboretum is a 110-acre botanical research center which also maintains property in Boston's Jamaica Plain...
...thing a teen film of this dubious caliber needs is a few knockout women to sell it to male adolescents. It is to this film's credit that while the female objects of Lane's attention are nice looking and just plain nice people, they are nothing to pin up on the wall. More realism like this would have been great, but with just this particular bit of the real world, the film will not be running long. As a side note, it's interesting how the good guy/girl is always a brunette, and the bad superficial guy/girl is always...