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...hills. In a verdant sky hangs the waning moon. The Battle of Germany (1944) is almost totally abstract. The coastline, as seen from a bomber, is evaporating in multicolored smoke. While bearing witness to events, he remained possessed by the English countryside, recording over and over again the wooded hilltops outside Oxford known as the Wittenham Clumps - the Nashes had moved here to avoid bombs. He uses pulsatingly vivid colors, reflecting the heat and white nights of summer, in paintings like Landscape of the Summer Solstice (1943). Under the crouching trees, the focal point is a menacing dandelion. The implicit...
...addition to about 165,000 reels of film, Widener’s new reading room includes “13 state-of-the-art reading scanners” with which patrons can view the archives, print them or burn them to CDs, said Marilyn D. Wood, Widener’s head of access services...
...Wood said the move first occurred to library administrators several years ago while planning Widener’s current large-scale renovations. The space which the reading room occupies was desirable for a number of reasons, they said...
...Ernest Hemingway who first described the subspecies of movie star that Maguire belongs to, calling them "the great American boy-men." They're the ageless, fresh-faced whippets of the silver screen--slim of build, dazzling of smile, androgynous of gender. Leonardo DiCaprio used to be one; Elijah Wood is still one. Now Tobey Maguire is breaking ranks. In his new movie, Seabiscuit, he grows...
ROXBURY, Mass.—“Let’s play 50 taps,” Jose suggests while dribbling the brown-skinned basketball on the shiny wood court...