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...Registry, an organization that authenticates art works, in the past six months has begun offering an Art Card on which patrons can charge up to half the price of a painting or sculpture, and take as long as five years to pay (at 15% interest). One California civil servant used the card to buy a Maxfield Parrish original that cost $14,000-equal to his annual salary. At Emory University in Atlanta, students can use credit cards to enroll for any evening course-Spanish, fiction writing, belly dancing. Some churches in the same city let parishioners charge their annual pledges...
...group of aristocrats watching the setting sun silhouette a factory on the horizon. But this kind of staginess can also be distracting: an imposingly literal set of cherry trees all but overruns a house in Act I; a little girl bearing cherry blossoms self-consciously tiptoes into the old servant Firs' death scene. The high, deep stage-space forces the cast to play to a scale larger than that of Chekhov's text (here rendered into colloquial English by Jean-Claude van Itallie...
Died. Anthony Crosland, 58, British Foreign Secretary and one of the Labor movement's leading theorists of democratic socialism; of a stroke; in Oxford, England. The son of a senior civil servant, Crosland went to Oxford, where he earned a first in politics, philosophy and economics. While serving in the House of Commons and in various Labor governments, he wrote several books, including The Future of Socialism (1956), which suggested that class had replaced capitalism as the appropriate target of socialists. After his appointment to Prime Minister James Callaghan's Cabinet last April, Crosland became the chairman...
...Europe, living by his wits, his nerve and a nice instinct for when to get out of town. He dreamed up mining schemes and lotteries, supported himself at the card table, survived imprisonment by the Inquisition, taught manners to princes and, almost constantly it seems, made love to women-servant girls, countesses, prostitutes-leaving a surprising number of them well disposed toward...
...write, it's zero outside. Snow is falling. But the Muscovites on their way to homes, universities or theaters this evening do not display the dour, inward-hunched, God-help-us visages of cold-stricken New Yorkers or Chicagoans. Snow is their friend, and servant...