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...loved the tall, ancient elm that once stood in front of my first-year dormitory, Holworthy Hall. On sunny days, I savored the moments I spent sitting in its shade, reading and talking with friends as they passed by on their way to class. And, as flaky as it sounds, I also loved...
...mainstream of Guercino's graphic work was his studies for commissions. He worked in many media -- chalk, charcoal, crayon, pencil -- but his favorite was pen and ink wash, from which he produced brilliant summaries of movement, light and shade. The trace of the pen twists and flourishes, now with a liquid agitation, now in sheaves of parallel hatching as tense as wires. Nodes of darkness in a head or down the flank of a torso link up across the whiteness of the paper, and the fearlessness of tonal range attests to Guercino's mastery. He could work passages of light...
...organism can exist without affecting its environment. Lions dine on gazelles. A growing tree will shade out sun-loving herbaceous plants. All organisms excrete wastes. So the question facing the Earth Summit and humanity in general is not whether to affect the environment or not, but in what ways...
...periods as well. Diane English's new CBS comedy Love and War, for example, will have the all-but-foolproof spot following English's current hit, Murphy Brown. Hearts Afire, the new series from Linda Bloodworth-Thomason, will also get an enviable time period: after Bloodworth-Thomason's Evening Shade. Over at ABC, Tom Arnold's new sitcom The Jackie Thomas Show was surprisingly left off the fall schedule. But it has been promised a midseason spot, in the time period following -- what else? -- Mrs. Arnold's hit show, Roseanne...
...white, 13% Hispanic, 5% Asian, only 2% black -- is a pristine bedroom community of just over 100,000, where the average price of a home is $230,000. Much of it is so fresh-out-of-the-cellophane new that in some shopping malls the trees are not yet shade size. "We can see some urban pressures like graffiti start to spring up," says Mayor Greg Stratton, but he stresses that "among towns over 100,000, Simi Valley is one of the two safest communities...