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...dead and not flattered to be treated like Shakespeare, Samuel Beckett was furious that the American Repertory Theater had reset his 1957 classic, endgame, in an abandoned, debris-filled subway tunnel...
...mount their collections. Most paintings come to museums framed by dealers or patrons, not by the artists, and curators have often felt free to update. Two years ago, the National Museum of American Art, in Washington, took the reverse route, restoring ornate frames to paintings it had earlier reset in plain wooden strips. Says Chief Curator Elizabeth Broun: "We thought it was more historically correct...
However, unlike what are normally called variable rate bonds. Harvard cannot arbitrarily reset the bonds' interest rate at the end of each year...
...Memorial Church bell has been ringing about two minutes late, but it was reset yesterday afternoon, Frederick B. Jackson, superintendent of facilities in the Department of Buildings and Grounds, said yesterday...
...call last week that something was wrong with the clock," said Jackson, who is in charge of maintaining Memorial Church. "I looked it over and couldn't reset it myself. A serviceman quickly fixed it in about five minutes this afternoon and it's running fine...