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...scarcely less spoiled now than it was nearly 200 years ago, when it provided a setting for James Fenimore Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales (in which the lake was called Glimmerglass). In the nearby village is the National Baseball Hall of Fame. Stretching in all directions is rolling farmland, Grant Wood vistas of an America that doesn't crinkle up its nose at the smell of manure...
Carnesale, who had worked closely with Ellwood prior to 1992, said he could not speculate as to what Ell- wood's appointment would mean for the KennedySchool's dean search...
...plan to raze four historic but rotting wood-frame buildings in the heart of Harvard Square and replace them with a new shopping arcade is drawing fire from area preservation groups...
...Awfully Big Adventure, directed by Mike Newell (Four Weddings) and adapted by Charles Wood from Beryl Bainbridge's novel, has the convincingly seedy look--almost the dank smell--of Liverpool after World War II. Even a visiting theater troupe seem tired and tatty under their gaudy makeup. With baths a luxury, the locals can afford only to dream. That, at least, is the route taken by young Stella (Georgina Cates, in an affecting star debut), who joins the troupe and falls in love with its dashing director (Grant). For Stella he's just the wrong person: homosexual, vicious, smooth...
Whistler's Mother remains his most famous painting--up there in the peculiar grab bag of images that for one reason or another, usually unconnected with their quality as art, everyone knows, like the Mona Lisa and Grant Wood's American Gothic. The picture that made his reputation was earlier, and better. Painted in 1862, it is a portrait of his Irish lover, Jo Hiffernan, Symphony in White, No. 1: The White Girl. Shown in London first and then in Paris, it provoked a buzz of irrelevant interpretation. The expressionless young woman in virginal white, standing on a wolfskin with...