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Back in Littlehampton, Anita's mother introduced her to another veteran of the trail -- a tall, thin 26-year-old Scotsman who had worked his way around the world (mining in Africa, canoeing in the Amazon, sheep farming in Australia) but really wanted to be a poet. To hear Anita tell it, she was concerned with more down-to-earth matters. "I wanted to have children and needed some sympathetic sperm," she says. "What I didn't anticipate was that I would fall in love with my sperm donor...
...half an hour onscreen, the Genie makes dozens of eyeblink metamorphoses: a Scotsman, a Scots dog, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Senor Wences, Ed Sullivan, Groucho Marx, a French waiter, a turkey, the crows from Dumbo, Eddie (Rochester) Anderson, a rabbit, a dinosaur, William F. Buckley Jr., Robert De Niro, a stewardess, a bashful sheep, Pinocchio, a magician, a Jean Gabin-style Frenchman, Sebastian the crab from The Little Mermaid, Arsenio Hall, a finicky tailor, Walter Brennan, a TV parade host and hostess, Ethel Merman, Rodney Dangerfield, Jack Nicholson, a talking lampshade, a bee, a U- boat, a one-man band...
Among those paying attention was the young Scotsman James Boswell, whose Life of Johnson (1791) remains the greatest biography in the English language. Boswell revealed nothing particularly scandalous about his subject; it remained for later scholars to exhume hints suggesting Dr. Johnson's fondness for being tied up and whipped. But the overwhelming intimacy of the Life of Johnson -- its almost minute-by-minute portrait of a volatile genius -- sent shock waves throughout the 19th century and caused a number of noteworthy people to guard their privacy and papers with increased diligence...
...Soviet Union and Spain. Latin is fading toward obsolescence, while Arabic, Japanese and Swahili are / all on the curriculum. In a sense, the place is drawing closer to its founder's original notion of a truly "public" school. "It is a privileged school," acknowledges Anderson, an energetic and articulate Scotsman from a family of royal kilt makers, "with beautiful buildings in a beautiful setting. But the only justification for privilege is that it should help people develop themselves to the full. We are elitist, but not exclusive. And I'm not ashamed in the least of being elitist. All that...
Corbero's work looks fairly orthodox, nevertheless, beside that of the young Scotsman David Mach, 32, showing at the Barbara Toll gallery (also through June 11). There is one object on view. It fills most of the gallery. It is called A Million Miles Away and is made from some 28,000 magazines -- surplus copies of House Beautiful, Esquire, Town & Country and the like -- spilling in a torrent from a fireplace, across the floor and through a wall and another fireplace. Embedded in them are a bathtub, a stuffed zebra and what must be the world's largest outboard motor...