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...Sunday stroll down Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard (but everybody still calls it 125th Street) between Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard (Seventh Avenue) and Frederick Douglass Boulevard (Eighth Avenue) takes the visitor past an armory of corrugated metal doors drawn protectively over shop facades. But on each of these doors a street genius named Franco has painted Pop-art murals appropriate to the goods sold inside: an underwater paradise for the fish shop, a spangled Eiffel Tower for the travel agency, a chain- laden Mr. T for the jewelry store. Midblock stands the legendary Apollo Theater, which brings Harlem...
...Students use our research and slide library and we have an active exchange program with many arboretums, herbariums and universities around the world," says Jeanne Christianson, coordinator of visitor services. "We have over a million plant species preserved or pressed from over a hundred years of collecting...
...knows how many patients are being held in Soviet mental hospitals solely because of their political beliefs. In the past few weeks alone, a visitor encountered several possible cases. One man, for example, claimed that his son had been hospitalized for resisting the draft. Another young man said he had just been released after spending two months in a mental ward for refusing on religious grounds to enter the military. While hospitalized, he said, he was given sulfazine, a powerful drug that has no apparent effect other than inducing a high fever...
...idea the Western market tends to promote, that the Soviet Union is a mine of little-known contemporary pictorial genius, is mostly sales talk. Stalinism deformed or aborted two generations of artistic talent, and no culture recovers so fast. The sense of a time lag is acute to the visitor. Certainly, there is no shortage of artists doing earnestly secondhand versions of last year's, or last decade's, Western model. But there is also some extremely serious talent: Natalia Nesterova, for instance, with her brooding groups of figures, locked in thick, silvery paint and dense with melancholy...
...gone gay all of a sudden!" yelled Cary Grant, dressed in a frilly robe, as he met a nosy visitor in the comedy Bringing Up Baby. Perhaps he wasn't trying to be funny. A new book on Grant insists that he was bisexual and had a fling with -- goodness gracious! -- Howard Hughes. He also spied for Britain and used LSD. Charles Higham and Roy Moseley, authors of Cary Grant: The Lonely Heart, write, "The honest biographer cannot shirk the painful truth, even at the risk of being called deliberately sensationalist." Some risks are no risks...