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...world's most stunning and least seen collections of Impressionist and Postimpressionist art, 1,100 works by such masters as Cezanne, Seurat and Picasso (whose Jester and Young Harlequin is at left), was long confined to the Barnes Foundation building in a Philadelphia suburb, under the terms of Dr. Albert Barnes' will. But 70 pieces will soon be permitted a one-time international tour, according to a ruling issued last week by a Pennsylvania court that settled part of a bitter factional dispute within the foundation. The show will travel to the National Gallery of Art in Washington and possibly...
Stephen McCauley, 37, has had an easy career. His first novel, The Object of My Affection (1987), won critical and popular esteem that only a tiny percentage of fiction -- first or otherwise -- ever attracts. He grew up in Woburn, a Boston suburb, the middle of three brothers. After the University of Vermont, he says, "I flip-flopped along," teaching, working at a Cambridge travel agency that was "full of wonderful, slow, late-'70s atmosphere...
...Eric, a 54-Year-old former Muscovite now living in a Jerusalem suburb. He bears the dubious distinction of being featured in a recent major newspaper under the headline, "Builder of Atomic Energy Plants Now Sweeps Floors for a Living." Since then, the school he used to clean has closed for the summer and Eric, once at the top of his profession, is jobless...
...question Bush likes to hear. Last week, in another classroom in a predominantly white and Republican suburb of Atlanta, a black father stood and asked if America no longer opened its arms to all refugees fleeing oppression. The President reddened and replied in a tone of bottled heat. "It's a very good question," Bush said, "and the answer is this: Yes, the Statue of Liberty still stands, and we still open our arms, under our law, to people that are politically oppressed. I will not . . . open the doors to economic refugees all over the world...
Born in a North Chicago neighborhood, son of agynecologist father and writer mother, Turow movedto Winnetka, and affluent Chicago suburb when hewas...