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DIED. FAYARD NICHOLAS, 91, tap dancer extraordinaire who, with brother Harold, performed gravity-defying fantasias with his feet, inspiring generations of dancers from Fred Astaire to Savion Glover; in Toluca Lake, Calif. The self-taught Nicholas Brothers leaped to prominence in the '30s, performing flips and splits with ease. Their acrobatics landed them roles in nearly 30 films--including 1943's Stormy Weather, whose finale features a flawless leapfrog down a spiral staircase. But because of Jim Crow--era practices, the African-American brothers rarely got starring or speaking parts...
...local storefronts filled with banks and big chain stores.“It seems like Harvard has turned its back on Harvard Square,” he says.BOOKBINDING TO BIOTECHMarshall’s curiosity has led him beyond book restoration and into other, more creative, pursuits. A self-taught inventor, he’s eager to show his collection of scientific patents to anyone who drops by his shop.His most recent invention is a visual stethoscope, which resembles a pocket-sized flying saucer with lights that pulse in time with the patient’s heartbeat. He explains that...
...missed; it's the alpha and omega of painting," though he couldn't resist adding the words "childlike naiveté," which would so often be used to undervalue the artist. Rousseau was never in any doubt about his own talent. Tate Modern curator Frances Morris admires the self-taught painter for sticking to his vision. "Until he was far on, he received very little encouragement," she says. Even when Rousseau's art grew popular, people were never quite sure what to make of him. The artgoing public might admire his output, despite or because of his "primitivism," but even...
From his obscure birth to his shocking death, Abraham Lincoln provided all the ingredients for a myth that grows with each passing generation. A hardworking, self-taught farm boy grows up to become President, leads the nation through a wrenching cataclysm and is killed at the moment of victory...
Although “Woodshop Walter” has only been at Harvard for seven months, he has been a Cambridge local for quite a while. “I was a street musician in 1979 in Harvard Square,” said Stanul, an accomplished, self-taught classical guitarist and luthier (one who makes stringed instruments...