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Hughes' remarkable capacity to balance his reviewing for TIME with ambitious outside projects is nothing new. American Visions, the book, follows such Hughes best sellers as Culture of Complaint and The Fatal Shore; the TV series takes its place with his 1981 series (and companion volume) The Shock of the New. Now that he has brought off the feat of writing a whole magazine, what does Hughes have in mind for the future? Well, he's thinking about a book on Goya--but he's in no hurry to get to it. "The donkey," he says, "needs to graze...
Anyone who has ever been chased down the shore by an enraged swan knows that swans are powerful birds--nothing like the delicate figments of Tchaikovsky's lakeside vision. The swan as predator is also the inspiration for Matthew Bourne, 37, a young British choreographer, whose radical recension of the ballet classic Swan Lake opens this week in Los Angeles. "I began with observation of the bird," says Bourne, "its wildness, huge beating wings." He also felt that "something more could be done with Swan Lake, particularly with the swans themselves." There have been hundreds of productions, but all based...
...much respected and admired professor of medicine," said Eleanor G. Shore '51, dean for faculty affairs at Harvard Medical School (HMS). "He made highly valued contributions to medical education at Harvard Medical School and to the leadership of the division of cardiology at Brigham and Women's Hospital...
After each swimmer took her turn speaking, Maura Costin Scalise, Harvard's coach for the past 13 years, stood up to deliver the shocking news--she is retiring to be with her four children and to run her family's nursing home on the North Shore...
...weekend for which a light dusting was forecast, a good four inches fell on Quogue. They wouldn't call four inches snow in places like Butte and Fargo, but on the southern shore of eastern Long Island the amount is impressive. It makes a sudden New England of an area that, in fact, was settled before most of New England, in the mid-17th century. The steep roofs of the New England-like houses are lathered with snow, and the surprisingly tall pines are shagged with ice, the way they get in Vermont. The main difference is the beach; there...