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...Marc Klaas, who since the kidnapping and murder of his daughter Polly Klass in October 1993 has devoted himself to helping parents in a similar plight. He flew to South Carolina with Jeanne Boylan, a cognitive artist with a background in psychology who has produced remarkably accurate suspect sketches in the Klaas case and many others. The sketch of the carjacker was so generic as to be useless, and Boylan thought she might be able to help pierce through Smith's trauma and retrieve a more vivid image of the abductor...
...this show is careful to make clear, several of the Impressionists felt strong loyalties to the older form. The gravity field of history paintings was still very strong. Edgar Degas wanted to do them; the Met's show includes a detailed sketch of medieval horsemen and dead or lamenting nudes, one of whom is shaking loose a cascade of flaming russet hair and looks exactly like the bathers he would draw two decades later. (It is dated 1865 and is thought to have been provoked by stories about the sufferings inflicted on Southern white women by Sherman's army...
Sander is not one of those designers whose participation in the process of making clothes ends when they have made a sketch. A former student of textile engineering, she insists on controlling all the details of manufacturing, and has invented fabrics like wool velvet and wool linen. She tries on every item in her collection before it is sent to stores and has been known to delay or refuse shipments of pieces that are not perfectly executed to her specifications. To keep her production schedules on target and to make sure - there isn't anything lacking in her line, Sander...
...Importance of Being Oscar attempts to convey this variety of sentiment in the context of Oscar Wilde's life, with mixed results. Written by Micheal Mac Liammoir, the play presents a biographical sketch of the author interspersed with excerpts from Wilde's writing. The excerpts, taken from poetry, prose, and personal letters, are well chosen and demonstrate Wilde's insightful commentary on 19th-century European society. They also suggest the depth and vulnerability of Wilde's nature, his sensitivity to the events and people in his life...
...Alegria is the most circusy, the most intimate, traditional, European. Though it boasts wondrous sets and costumes -- an aviary motif with acrobat birds in brilliant plumage -- it is dominated by the clowns, most of them Russian, with a dolorous wit and poignant stories to tell. In one sketch a clown-bird perches alone on a telegraph wire (a rope stretched across the stage) enjoying his solitude until another arrives; it is a French existential drama in miniature, a No Exit or Godot with a sweeter aftertaste...