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While Michelle sits quietly, watching cartoons, nurse Edith Engel, wearing disposable white coveralls, divides the child's hair into sections and examines each blond strand under the fluorescent magnifying lamp, hunting down everything the nit comb missed. This job will take two hours; heavier infestations take as long as six hours. "It's something you have to do," says Serrano, who has found bugs in her own hair twice since she opened a year ago. "We check each other every...
...photographers, like Ansel Adams at Yosemite. But 20th century painters from Dove and Hartley through Pollock conveyed them into more modern idioms, often with great power and poignancy. Landscape, in fact, was the matrix in which most of the impulses of American abstract art, except for its weaker strand of purist geometry, unfolded. In no other country except England and Australia was the relation between abstraction and landscape so strong, but in America it had a special persistence because of its Transcendentalist roots and overtones of mysticism...
WHITNEY'S WEB Can't make it to the Whitney Museum for its big retrospective exhibit of 20th century paintings, photographs, sculpture and crafts? Then log onto Intel's artmuseum.net to see 100 works by the likes of Georgia O'Keeffe, Jackson Pollock and Paul Strand. Online extras include a video of the famous 1923 boxing match between Jack Dempsey and Luis Angel Firpo that inspired George Bellows' Dempsey & Firpo. You can also create a custom tour by selecting your favorite images--shopping-cart style--and share them with friends...
...Novel: Michael Cunningham's "The Hours." Drama: "Wit," by kindergarten teacher Margaret Edson Poetry: "Blizzard of One," by former U.S. Poet Laureate Mark Strand History: "Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898," by Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace (no relation) Biography: "Lindbergh," by A. Scott Berg General Nonfiction: "Annals of the Former World," by John McPhee Music: "Concerto for Flute, Strings and Percussion," by Melinda Wagner...
Junior reliver Derek Lennon had to battle in the ninth after he surrendered a one-out priple to Rhode Island shortstop Mike LaBarbera, but he coaxed Conney into a groundout and got Chamsarian swinging to strand the runner and keep the Crimson close...