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...SERNIN BASILICA, the biggest and most beautiful Romanesque church in southern France; the Musée des Augustins, a 14th century convent and cloister with magnificent Gothic and Romanesque sculpture; the Fondation Bemberg collection, housed in the 16th century Hôtel d'Assézat, has paintings from the Renaissance to the 20th century; the church and cloister of Les Jacobins, founded by St. Dominic in 1340, is famed for its spectacular 28-m "palm tree"; pillar, fanning out into 22 vaulting arches; and the Musée St. Raymond, with its stunning ancient Roman sculpture...
...Sept. 11 severed the convocation in half: five days of illuminating fun, five days of mourning from which the movies provided only fitful distraction. So this year on Sept. 11, the festival presented two films that explicitly confronted the attacks and their aftermath: Jim Simpson's The Guys, a conventionally heartrending meeting of a journalist and a New York City fire captain, and the much more ambitious and provocative 11'09"01: September 11. The conceit is this: 11 directors from five continents each make a film, running 11 min. 9 sec. Some episodes find subtlety, humor, parable...
...experiment that is gaining popularity among a range of Catholic communities, some schools and parishes have established corporations to give themselves complete independence, even from their regional diocese. In 1997, for instance, a group of Dominican nuns founded the Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist convent in Ann Arbor, Mich., which has expanded to include four local schools and two in Honduras. Sisters of Mary is incorporated and run by a lay board of directors. Its financial affairs are directed by a Virginia-based private investment group that primarily focuses its efforts on sustaining small nonprofit organizations. "You have...
...Hollywood passed on Washington. Yet she had a long, rich life (she died in1994 at the age of 90) in which she was associated with many prominent black artists. Born in 1903 in Savannah, Ga., educated at a convent school in Cornwell Heights, Pa., and at the Christophe School of Languages in New York City, young Fredi was dancing with the Happy Honeysuckles when she was 15. She worked as a bookkeeper for W.C. Handy's record company, and was soon appearing with Baker in the musical "Shuffle Along"(1921). She co-starred with Paul Robeson in the Broadway play...
...Grand Hotels: La Tour Rose, for the rooms decorated by the city's best silk manufacturers, 22 rue du Boef; the Villa Florentine, in a former convent, 25 Montée StBarthélémy. is an appealing jumble of small shops and restaurants tucked into Italianate pink and ocher buildings that bear witness to Lyons' 15th and 16th century wealth. The first stock market in France opened here in 1506, and with royal patronage the city became the silk-weaving capital of Europe. The cobbled streets of Vieux Lyons are connected by closed alleys called traboules. Originally just...