Word: durer
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...Bleeding Heart suggests a slight thaw. Its core is a seemingly endless and inconclusive dialogue-SALT talks in the gender wars-between a 45-year-old woman and her lover, a middle-aged businessman. Dolores Durer is a professor of English at a Boston college, divorced and the mother of grown children. She is in Oxford, England, to complete research for her book, Lot's Wife: A Study of the Identification of Women with Suffering...
...pain; durare, to endure. Victor means victor, the confident, satiated gladiator who pats his woman on the rump and rushes off to compete for glory and riches. He gets ample time to give his side of the story. The man is bright but no intellectual threat to Dr. Durer's fevered assertions and generalizations. Still, he may be too smart to challenge such filibusters as, "What I want, Victor, is to change the world ... To make it a place where women's way of seeing, thinking, feeling, is as valid as men's. Where maybe even...
...give him the same "experience" as the original. It is the critic's bias against the reproduction that somehow makes it "worse." If the reproductions offer the same experience as the original, why shouldn't they be considered worthwhile? For centuries artists have reproduced their art--engravers like Albrecht Durer and William Blake made rough woodblocks of their originals and printed dozens of copies to sell. They certainly didn't consider it demeaning...
...Revere's Boston," is finishing its five-month run. It's interesting for colonial silver-and-furniture buffs, but I for one am becoming very bored with the eighteenth century. just opened is an exhibit called "Northem Prints of the Late Middle Ages"--including Holbein's Dance of Death, Durer's Melancholla and other masterpieces. Certainly worth catching. Through Dec. 7; the MFA is free on Sundays from...
...production of La Traviata, and cocktail parties at which members of both the New Yorker and the New York Review of Books will be present. And, oh, he thinks as he asks "When does this book circulate for the vacation?" there is to be a showing of rarely-seen Durer prints at a nearby museum (considered by most to be one of the finest in the world). Finally the last lecture comes and goes and it's off to the airport and a short plane ride to the city that many compare to a rather large apple. Getting...