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...ANOTHER WARM EVENING ON ST. Kitts, and the customers gather at Fisherman's Wharf to drink Carib beer, eat lobster tails and listen to the pulsing beat of soca music. Outside, crickets chirp and waves murmur on the beach. The air is soft, the breeze sweet. It's hard to imagine a cozier, more peaceful spot to unwind from winter's onslaught, which explains why every year at this time thousands of sun-starved American and European tourists migrate to St. Kitts by plane and cruise ship. Most of them are unaware that the sleepy little isle also accommodates...
...LAST FRIDAY EVENING, 16-year-old Neil Parker was strolling in East London with his girlfriend when a powerful blast of wind nearly knocked him to his knees. Nearly a mile away, a half-ton bomb had exploded just across from Canary Wharf, home of Europe's tallest office building. As blood-flecked pedestrians stumbled across acres of shattered glass and sirens pierced the smoke, Parker tried to calm his girlfriend, Samantha Herbert. "I thought immediately it was something to do with the I.R.A.," he said...
Farndon's oils evoke the same, mildly pleasant feelings, soothing and persuading viewers to luxuriate in his images of the ideal moment. Rarely does his subject venture beyond a ship yard or a wharf, a sun-drenched path or a perfectly motionless pond. Thick paint and broad strokes complete his portrayal of utter screnity through the heaviness and fixity of the surface texture of his canvases. Figures are rendered almost motionless, defined only by a few cursory passes of his brush, while those figures standing on a path or in a park as if on a stroll end up pasted...
Toward the water is the Old South Wharf, featuring specialty shops that sell everything from miniature porcelain dolls to specialty print shops...
BOSTON--President Clinton spoke about issues ranging from America's youth to New England's hearty spirit in a fundraising speech here at Rowes Wharf before an audience of thousands...