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...prior written contract Bailey thinks Harvard might avoid a repeat performance of the Brustein-undergraduate drama...
...THOSE WHO forget the past are condemned to repeat it." Of all possible thinkers, of all possible quotations, these words of George Santayana appeared on a sign above Jim Jones's throne in the Guyanese jungle. After three days of trying to make sense of the People's Temple with traditional assumptions about American life, I found this the most astonishing irony, the most provocative and mysterious detail...
...when collectors refused to touch his current work but scrambled for any pre-1920 De Chirico, he began to repeat his own early work. The market for De Chiricos became hopelessly snarled in disputes over authenticity, between fake De Chiricos painted by others, the copies he painted himself, and the real pre-1920 canvases. He took a sardonic relish in that. It was his revenge on an art world that he regarded as corrupt from first to last. Nevertheless, nothing would stop him from painting. He was, at the last, a model of misapplied industry. But the young De Chirico...
...brief moments can you forget that this thing is a cartoon. Bakshi superimposes animation and live footage, washing the whole scene in psychedelic colors, negative images and painted color. Yet for all the apparent flash, Bakshi's imagination runs dry quickly and soon the characters, landscapes, and action repeat themselves...
...competition from universities in cities with less stringent DNA regulations, are pushing hard for enforcement of the latest guidelines. If Vellucci's past behavior is any clue, he will strenuously resist any attempts to change the ordinance. Krimsky says, "This whole issue of the ordinance could be a repeat of two years ago." That confrontation between Harvard and Cambridge left quite a few scars, and neither the University nor the city wants a repeat performance. But they may have no choice...