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Three days a week, Mondays through Wednesdays, she serves as the chief conservator at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City, the location of her permanent residence...
...wrenching Telling Nicholas (HBO, May 12, 10 p.m. E.T.), James Ronald Whitney does something different: he limns 9/11's emotional and social complexity by tracing the stories behind two flyers posted for missing victims. The first leads him to the Staten Island home of Michele Lanza, whose family has not figured out how to tell her bright-eyed son Nicholas, 7, that his mother is never coming back. Granted intimate access over 10 days, Whitney finds the Lanzas overwhelmed by emotional stress and circling to protect Nicholas--who tells himself his mom is lost in New Jersey...
...thus, for her death. One Lanza sister becomes catatonic; another is fixated on a bogus Nostradamus prediction about the attacks circulating on the Internet. Michele's mother is consumed with anger at Muslims: "I want them tortured," she rages. "Men, women, children." As if to counter this reaction, Whitney traces another flyer to the Brooklyn home of Shabbir Ahmed, a Bangladeshi waiter killed in the attacks, and finds his family grieving as well, while also afraid about the repercussions for them as Muslims. Ahmed's teenage son Thambir becomes Whitney's assistant on the documentary and ends up bonding with...
...Green midfielder Alison Moulin scored on a free position shot, and Whitney Jamison followed nine seconds later with a goal off of a Moulin feed for a 5-2 lead...
...metal tree rises in a park and no one notices, is it art? If it's part of the 2002 Whitney Biennial, it is. Less an art show than a retinal fun fair, the Biennial's sweep is so broad that when a televangelist prays for art in one work, one is tempted to shout "Amen...