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...coffee lovers the black brew is an elixir that soothes frazzled nerves, gives the mind a lift at exam time, spells drop-in hospitality to the housewife. Yet in recent years coffee has been tentatively tied to various afflictions, including diabetes, heart attack, and cancer of the colon, urinary tract and stomach. Last week Harvard University researchers announced a statistical link between coffee and cancer of the pancreas. The pancreas produces enzymes vital to digestion and the hormone insulin for sugar metabolism. Pancreatic cancer claims 22,000 lives a year. It is the fifth largest cause of cancer death...
...DiGiovanni parking lot--located right next to 122 1/2 Mt. Auburn St., this tract was purchased by Harvard for $4 million more than a year ago. Again Harvard has announced no definite plans, but University officials are meeting with a group of community residents to discuss possible uses for the open lot. When it bought the land. Harvard promised to put housing on the land. Major questions to be answered include how many homes will be built, and how expensive they will be, and University officials are quick to caution that the hefty price paid for the land makes luxury...
...side of a Caspar David Friedrich sunset." That must be the most astoundingly nutty thing written by a talented critic about a talented artist so far this winter. But they do have a weird, banal intensity, especially in Viewing the Sculpture, 1980, where a number of chairs in a tract-home parlor survey a pressed-steel hardware-store Lazy Susan, landed in their midst like an alien life form...
...Empire Strikes Back, the protege has finessed his mentor at the box office. Says one screenwriter: "Francis has spent long hours bemoaning the twist of fate that brought George all that money." Lucas has invested much of his movie winnings in the conversion of a 2,000-acre tract in California's Marin County into a production base. With Zoetrope, Coppola hoped to build a prototype movie world...
That is what Turrell has tried to do - and with brilliant success, leading us to question our sense of substance, presence and absence while looking at his work. A wall floats and fogs out in a blue hypnotic glow; a tract of colored light takes on the apparent density of a screen or a boundary. These are not cheap hall-of-illusion effects. At its best, as in Raemar, Turrell's work has a restrained, elevated air, hushed and deliberate; one thinks of Mark Rothko's paintings, translated into three dimensions and actual conditions of light. And just...