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GARDNER MUSEUM. In this authentic Venetian palace with its courtyard of hanging flowers, Isabelin Gardner amassed one of the world's finest and most eclectic collections. Tues...
...arrests a year, mostly in narcotics cases; a retired burglar, he now earns $700 a month from the police. Not surprisingly, money is a common motive for informers. In 1775, somewhat the worse for his fabled years of womanizing, Casanova replenished his purse by hiring out to the Venetian Inquisitors; he provided them with political tidbits as well as a list of the major works of pornography and blasphemy to be found in the city's private libraries. The fictional Irish betrayer Gypo Nolan, in the movie The Informer, turned in his best friend to the British...
...distinguished bearded gentlemen. Gertrude Kasebier explores the classic form of mother and child. And Alfred Stieglitz a papa in photographer and a great art lover, introduced the American public to Picasso, Matisse and others. His misty streets in "Glow of Night. N.Y.," and the rippling reflections of "Venetian Doorways," are nicely juxtaposed to point out staccato reflections in wet surfaces...
...peculiar vice to distrust his own feelings in the unfamiliar pursuit of love--the battle wouldn't be worth the fighting. Iago so overpowers the Moor that pity keeps us on Othello's side much longer than hope. Though he plays with just enough confidence and grace in the Venetian scenes. Anderson breaks too quickly under Iago's pressures in Cyprus: calling forth his full range of emotions too early, he's forced to reiterate them with increasing intensity in the last three acts. But the worst that can be said of his first-night performance is that his smiles...
...lake shore, with 500 rooms in five so-called long houses. The Contemporary Resort Hotel, which looks vaguely like a Mayan pyramid and features a 14-story-deep lobby appropriately called the Grand Canyon Concourse, will be finished by January, and two more cavernous hotels-in Persian, Thai and Venetian styles-have yet to be started. The prices at Disney World seem reasonable enough. Hotels range from $22 to $40 for a room large enough for a family of four. Package plans include one that offers three days and two nights at a hotel, three free days in the amusement...