Word: siring
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...Robert Harvard ventured out of bustling London to find a wife in the sleepy market town of Stratford-upon-Avon. In a house a short stroll from the home of William Shakespeare’s family, Harvard successfully courted Katherine Rodgers. The couple went on to sire our university’s namesake—John Harvard. And while the university was founded by a man whose parents very possibly knew Shakespeare personally, this fact did not foreshadow a corresponding care for drama in the new Cambridge. Puritanical conservatism, academic mores, and general structural lapses have hampered dramatic life...
...wouldn't be hard to read all this as breast-baring confession, or at least rueful self-parody, except that it quickly veers into fiction. Bret (this is the fictional Bret) has managed to sire a son with an actress named Jayne Dennis, and when he flunks out of his umpteenth rehab he decides to save himself by marrying her, moving to Connecticut and becoming a regular suburban dad. But Bret brings his demons with him, both figuratively--he can't kick the sauce and he's haunted by his late alcoholic, rageoholic father--and literally: the Connecticut McMansion...
...below. Before he died, Cartier-Bresson had a final look at his images for the exhibit, taking in his surrealism-influenced shots of Mexico and unselfconscious images of Europe, such as the ambiguous mutual grooming outside a brothel in an image titled Alicante. That last look, says Agn?s Sire, director of the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, "made him very happy...
...Before he died, Cartier-Bresson had a final look at his images for the exhibit, taking in his surrealism-influenced shots of Mexico and unselfconscious images of Europe, such as the ambiguous mutual grooming outside a brothel in an image titled Alicante. That last look, says Agnès Sire, director of the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, "made him very happy." The exhibition runs through Dec. 19, before traveling to the Musée de l'Elysée, Lausanne, in February. For information, go to: www.henricartierbresson.org...
...paper mentions is that the child wasn?t Kirkland?s; it was Preminger?s. The boy was first called Erik Kirkland, then Erik de Diego. When he learned his father?s true identity, the young man took the name Erik Lee Preminger. In his marriage to Phyllis, Kirkland did sire a child: Alexandra, known as Sandy...