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...this sixth phase of the project, which wasinitiated in October 1993, workers will constructthe main trunk of a storm sewer from the CharlesRiver up DeWolfe...
...with the staging's only coarse moments. Somehow director Stephen Medcalf thought to dramatize the lady's unhappiness by portraying her in a kind of sexual heat. While Susanna is singing "Dei vieni non tardar," Mozart's heavenly, healing, last-act aria, the Countess is writhing around a tree trunk...
...Antoine Nodet. "Jumping from watches to cars lacks credibility." Jean-Marc Buchet, who follows the auto industry for the French brokerage firm Leven, says that "there is clearly a market for a small city car" but wonders if people will pay $10,000 for "a two-seater with no trunk space...
...horror. In addition to revisiting the many injustices of poverty ("in school one girl had a ball-point pen and I didn't") and listing the names of boys who beat him up, the author bitterly recalls the misery of life in a communal apartment ("I slept on a trunk"), the lines to the toilet ("it smelled bad") and his first attempt at sexual intercourse. Its consummation was thwarted, he explains, by his failure to successfully remove the bathing suit of one of his female classmates ("the experience impoverished my soul...
...probably isn't possible to paint a naked human back without remembering Ingres's bathers, but Bowery's pose also recalls Goya's giant looming over its landscape. The conjunction of his massive and dynamically arched trunk with the waiflike body of the sleeping girl in And the Bridegroom, 1993, evokes the gross strong men and tiny dancers of Picasso's Rose Period. The lanky bodies on the iron studio bed in Two Women, 1992, are a little like Courbet's lesbians, without the Second Empire titillation. A naked man on his back, one leg up and a sock dangling...