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...Gutwillig '86 sits on the floor and plays with a cat as he speaks of the festival's meaning. "It's about plucking hope out of the shadows of the AIDS crisis," he says. "That's why it's the festival of life and [the words on the poster] are green. We want to show that a positive response is more contagious than the disease itself...
...everywhere. A gorgeous blue- lacquered maple desk (1933) designed by Paul Frankl avoided the cartoony extremes and actually evoked the future accurately; the piece might have been designed last week. Loewy's pencil sharpener (1934) is delightfully and uselessly aerodynamic, its barrel jutting forward at the angle of a poster- perfect Soviet worker marching into the future. Then there was Buck Rogers as penthouse playboy: Walter Dorwin Teague's lingerie-sexy blue glass radio (1936) and Ely Jacques Kahn's spherical aluminum ice bucket (1940), shiny and synthetically...
...Most students are back in their rooms by now. The room at Room 13 is furnished with old sofas and overstuffed chairs. There is a serviceable if not beautiful pale green carpet, and a New York poster hangs on one wall. The exposed pipes overhead let visitors know that it's a basement, but it's not uncomfortable...
...four-day conference in Washington, D.C., brought together scientists from all over the world to discuss the latest advances in cardiovascular medicine. Included were more than 150 lectures, seminars, and poster presentations by researchers from Harvard Medical School and its affiliated hospitals. "We have a very good reputation," said Dr. Eugene Braunwald, Hersey Professor of Medicine and Physician-in-Chief at the Harvard-affiliated Beth Israel and Brigham and Women's Hospitals. "When experts are asked to rank the cardiology programs in this country, Harvard's [Massachusetts General, Beth Israel, and Brigham and Women's Hospitals] are usually...
...boot-licking Edwardian rodomontade of John Singer Sargent's huge portrait of the Duke of Marlborough and Consuelo Vanderbilt; from a marble mock-Greek portrait by the sculptor Francis Chantrey of two woodcocks he had shot at Holkham Hall, to the Calke State Bed, a sumptuous four-poster whose hangings of gold-embroidered blue-and-cream silk were recently found in their original box in Calke Abbey, as fresh as the day they left China nearly 250 years...