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...staff members were seen milling in front of Faust’s office shortly before the workday ended. Standing in a group, rather than working at their desks, their demeanor suggested that something had happened during the day, but all refused to comment. Radcliffe’s official spokeswoman, Whitney Espich, said only that Faust was not in Cambridge that day. Faust’s whereabouts proved difficult to pin down: an evening call to her house on Brattle Street revealed that she was in Philadelphia, attending a Board of Trustees meeting at Bryn Mawr. The individual who answered...
...DIED. Whitney Balliett, 80, dean of jazz criticism, mostly for the New Yorker, whose vivid, sensual and impressionistic writing on the exploding medium mirrored the exuberance and cadence of the music itself; in New York City. His prose made palpable the styles and physicality of performers like drummer "Big Sid" Catlett (whose "huge hands ... reduced the drumsticks to pencils") and trumpeter "Doc" Cheatham (whose solos were "a succession of lines, steps, curves, parabolas, angles and elevations"). Defining his role as appreciative witness as opposed to stern judge, he and writer Nat Hentoff in 1957 put together TV's The Sound...
...currently budgeted at $94 million, "will have the attributes of something strange and otherworldly, something 'found,' but nothing that could be said to be a ruin." If anything, its future now looks so promising that developers are rushing in with proposals for luxury condos along its route, and the Whitney Museum of American Art is planning a sizable new facility there for contemporary...
...Homer At Homer, a home-furnishings store near the Whitney Museum of American Art, an anatomically correct lobster, hand-carved from resin, has movable parts. tel: (1-212) 744-7705; www.homerdesign.com...
...mail, Whitney urged students to make use of their House concentration advisors for questions that would normally be directed...