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...made entirely of Bakelite! During the late 1920s and early '30s, a remarkable new aesthetic took hold: for an object to look modern, it had to look as if it had been retrieved from the future. Among a good many designers, sentimental nostalgia for the picture-book past --Gothic, Tudor, American colonial--was supplanted by an equally romantic infatuation with the future, nostalgia in reverse...
...English Pub by Rob Anderson (Viking; 111 pages; $25) makes intoxicatingly clear, a good deal of old English charm remains. More than 30,000 public houses continue to offer wayfarers in England an inimitable hospitality, glowingly captured in Photographer Andy Whipple's color pictures. Pub exteriors may go from Tudor austerity to Victorian baroque, and the signs swing from the Cat and Custard Pot Inn to the Parson's Nose. But the good ones all offer similar pleasures indoors: a friendly host, welcoming bar and foamy pints that are still worth sampling. This book slakes nearly every sense except thirst...
MARCIA GREEN, HEATHER JOHNSTON and INGER TUDOR (from left to right) perform in For Colored Girls..., a compelling and touching adaptation of Shange's intimate story of Black women surviving in the modern day. The drama-musical is the first production this year by Black C.A.S.T. and is a stong step forward for Bradford, who has shown great ability and creativity in all of his productions either at the Leverett House Old Library or the Loeb Mainstage. As with most musical productions at Harvard there are some weak voices and weak coreography, but the play comes out ahead...
Royal Bret Saberhagen was the monkey maker. Cardinal Starter John Tudor, the humorless winner of Games 1 and 4, reacted to being knocked out in the third inning by slugging an electric fan with his pitching hand and, against all odds, finishing the season in stitches. Besides surrendering the first ten days of next year and a fine of $500, Andujar can also expect a bill from the Royals for a battered toilet. It turned out the Cardinals had feet of porcelain...
...John Tudor pitched the Cardinals to a 3-0 victory over the Royals...