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...There is something about the profession of impresario, the entire tribe of them, that has fascinated me ever since I learned that such weird and exotic beings existed,” said the late Clive Barnes, one of the preeminent dance critics from the turn of the 20th century. “I think I originally imagined them looking a little like Serge Diaghilev. A grandee of café society, yet a man of classless class, who wore his cultural and intellectual distinctions as casually as a subtle aroma of cologne.” The Sergei Diaghilev in question...
...mailed to the hospitals remains unclear, but no biological threat was found. Wednesday’s scare began after employees at New England Baptist Hospital noticed an envelope with excessive postage and suspicious-looking writing scrawled on the front around 10:47 a.m. The hospital notified police, which in turn warned hospitals in the area. Throughout the late morning and early afternoon—as hospitals scoured mailrooms for suspicious letters—other hospitals reported finding similar letters, triggering a flurry of hazmat team deployments to four other hospitals in the Boston area. The letters appear to be from...
Halfway through “The Posthuman Dada Guide: tzara and lenin play chess,” one may indulge the urge to turn to the Internet to help explain Andrei Codrescu’s looping chain of definitions, anecdotes, and exaggerated statements about the world. The entries that compose Codrescu’s “guide” are thick with allusions to forgotten female poets and obscure psychedelic rock bands. It’s hard to read them without wanting to know more, especially with little prior knowledge of Codrescu’s main focus: the 1920s...
...Venetian painters seems to engage in a pictorial brinksmanship, each work one-upping the last: Titian’s consummate composition and beauty, Veronese’s ebullient gatherings of pastel-clad figures, or Tintoretto’s brilliant challenges to the status quo.The exhibition begins at a turning point in the history of painting, with the shift from wood panels to stretched canvases as the substrate for the painted work. The contrasting pair that opens the exhibition juxtaposes a Titian canvas with an earlier Bellini panel of a similar scene, a virgin surrounded by saints. The smooth surface...
...main effects of an angiogenesis inhibitor in treating glioblastoma, a severe kind of brain tumor, stem from the reduction of brain swelling, rather than any effect on tumor growth. In these tumors, blood vessels can be leaky, which causes swelling in the brain known as edema. This, in turn, can cause drowsiness, loss of consciousness, and brain damage. A Phase II clinical trial with the experimental drug cediranib conducted several years ago showed that patients treated with the drug survived longer compared to historical controls. Researchers wanted to know why this occurred, said Tracy T. Batchelor, one of the authors...