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Frederick J. Stare, a crusading nutritionist who debunked fad diets and founded Harvard’s department of nutrition, died last Thursday at his home in Wellesley, Mass...
...Phillips Brooks House Association Spring Break. Among our varied volunteer activities, we painted houses for economically disadvantaged elderly residents. At one of the houses, a local high school student named Boone helped out. He was incredibly quiet and never talked; he just seemed to paint and to stare. But after someone in our group blurted out that I was Miss Harvard, he suddenly became more interested in speaking with me. Chewing on a piece of grass and talking in a southern drawl, he encouraged me as I twirled a broom like it was a baton. Later, when his brother came...
WATCH IT When lunching with business associates in China, don't turn the chicken head. The local superstition says that if the bird looks at anyone but the host, the subject of its stare will be pink-slipped. This useful site is full of advice on etiquette in foreign lands?and confessions of travelers who messed...
...With the Globe," reads the poster on the newspaper delivery truck. "Read J.J. Hunsecker." Hunsecker, the upper half of his face on the poster, seems already to be reading you. The flinty eyes behind those thick glasses stare out like Big Brother's; the film will soon reveal what sort of a big brother he is. Under the opening credits, Elmer Bernstein score blares confidently (though in truth it sounds like leavings from his terrific work on "The Man With the Golden Arm" two years before). The glimpses of midtown midnight Manhattan under the credits put me in mind...
...early 1950s described his famous façades as "tortures of the imagination, fetuses in stone, bulbous obscenities." But today, many hail him as a genius, some are calling on the Pope to make him a saint, and more than two million people come to Barcelona each year to stare at his buildings, love them or hate them. With the 150th anniversary of his birth on June 25, the city of Barcelona and the Catalan and Spanish governments have proclaimed 2002 International Gaudí Year. More than 100 events are planned in homage. Already the Spanish press has dubbed...