Word: townes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Johnson's quiet command is different than Fraser's approach, but she has a firm hand on the group. At the general meeting featuring "Singled Out," she spoke briefly at the beginning and then explained that she had to leave, as she was scheduled to leave town. Perhaps the most telling thing about this year's BSA leadership is how smoothly the meeting ran in her absence...
...recent years, town-gown relations have been characterized by tension and strain. From the University's land dealings in Allston to its plans for the new Knafel Center, many Cantabrigians have comes to see Harvard as an insensitive Goliath, acting without regard for local interests. The University's decision to do something to ameliorate the dearth of low-income housing-one of the local community's most pressing problems-should be well received...
Boston often struggles to shed its image of musty, small-town conservatism and to establish itself as a forerunner in the production and exhibition of cutting-edge contemporary work. With regard to the local art market, Katie Block of Miller Block Gallery at 14 Newbury St. laments that the work of a contemporary art gallery director in Boston is much harder than it is elsewhere, professing that Boston art collectors tend toward the traditional side, with a predilection for the strictly representational and less openness toward abstract and conceptual...
City Councillor and Vice Mayor Anthony D. Gallucio said the plan is an important in improving town-gown relations...
This approach is even more egregious in New York, which renders a hard-core town as easy listening. Besides the trademark pans of photographs and prints, Ric Burns uses copious aerial shots of the city, glimmering, filled with butterscotchy light--but lifeless. Through seemingly Vaselined lenses, however, a picture emerges from both these works of the long, fruitful tension between evangelical idealism and secular mercantilism. Ken and Ric Burns have managed to sing America. If only they wouldn't sing it to sleep...