Word: subways
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...about] characters, not me,” Robinson says. She adds “I don’t write poetry to write about my life, but it ends up there anyway,” and Harvard readers will recognize references to English Professor Leo Damrosch and the T subway. Her poetic voice is compelling enough to bind these disparate elements together, but their union is sometimes mysterious: despite their confident language and intriguing contents, some of the poems are opaque and difficult to understand. The title poem, “The Life of a Hunter...
...architecture, Folon left his hometown of Uccle, near Brussels, for Paris at the age of 21, but first found success in the U.S. with his eye-catching, whimsical pictures of birds, flying men, rainbows and billowy landscapes. Always prolific, Folon's style survived translation onto postage stamps, giant subway murals and, in later years, to animated films and sculpture...
DIED. JEAN-MICHEL FOLON, 71, commercial artist whose humanistic, whimsical designs appeared in galleries, opera houses and subway stations around the world; in Monaco. In much of Folon's work, which included posters for UNICEF and covers for TIME and other magazines, his blank-faced Everyman, often dwarfed by modern structures, caricatured the chaos of urban life...
MICHAEL BLOOMBERG, New York City mayor, on alerting the public about a terrorist threat--the first to specifically target the city's subway system--that federal officials deemed "noncredible...
...hour begins as soon as you depart Boston’s South Station. It starts the second you buy your 10-dollar “special event” commuter rail ticket towards Foxboro, an otherwise invisible hamlet excised from normal subway lines and cities...