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...live, standing at the side of a highway and facing a creek that runs below a bridge, is an abandoned house that was not quite lost to a fire. No one has bothered to knock it down or rebuild it. Its windows are shuttered with gray planks of wood, shingles are missing like jack-o'-lantern teeth, and its beams are scorched. It would be perfect as a haunted house for the local kids this Halloween, if any kid would care to go near it. But the house looks too forlorn for games and too forbidding. I don't even...
...Boylston are, literally, as different as night and day. "It was really dark and cavernous-looking before," recalls Classic concentrator Joshua Mann '00. The dingy, poorly-lit hallways on the upper floors have been rearranged, and the rather grey ground floor has been redecorated. Bright colors and unfinished wood permeate every aspect of the new decor. Walls throughout the building sport colors ranging from light beige to olive green and burnt orange. Sunlight reaches nearly every room, and in addition to the lighting in classrooms and offices, lights along interior hallways even illuminate the ceiling. The study carrels...
Nothing breeds curiosity, ill-will, fantasy or 5 a.m. fire alarms quite like the firedoor. That forbidden "In case of fire, strike; tampering forbidden; penalty" bizarrely located and not-at-all-soundproof piece of wood and metal is all that stands between your Harvard habitat and the great beyond. There it stands, inviting the inquiring mind. Perhaps your true love, worst enemy, or a room set-up that looks like a palace lies beyond the door. And can the people over there hear you talking about private issues...
...Although woods are a rarity in and around Harvard Square, even by taking brisk walk along the Charles, you can immerse yourself in the Boston of burnt orange leaves, sunny days and chilly nights and the occasional sniff of burning wood. The physical beauty conjures up images of pilgrims, Puritans and preachers. Boston in the fall can be a symbol for rugged individualism; man conquers nature and reaps the harvest fruits and vegetables for which he says thanks in late November. Hay-rides, horses and apple-picking are all lingering nostalgia for Boston's agrarian past...
Duchamp, famous for the signed urinal and The Large Glass, and Joseph Cornell, not so famous for living with his mother in Queens, N.Y., and making densely intricate boxes of ephemera such as apothecary jars, photos, paper clippings and decorated wood cubes, formed a kind of pack-rat pack of two in the '40s after Duchamp enlisted Cornell to work on his portable museum, Boite-en-Valise. Cornell's collection of the trimmings--notes, receipts, old glue boxes--of their meetings forms the Duchamp Dossier and the centerpiece of this show. Neither a great Cornell nor a great Duchamp exhibition...