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...more interest than the standard international McMenu of post-McModernism, represented here by such delicacies as a garish Jeff Koons and some enormous, effete Sigmar Polkes. A museum of SFMOMA's potential importance, in a city with its own rich art traditions, should have the best of the vin du pays. One hopes so, now that it need no longer be kept in the cellar...
...Countess Albina du Boisrouvray's $20 million gift to the School of Public Health progressed along the typical lines, if such things can be said to exist for such a large gift--with the exception of the fact that she had no previous ties to Harvard...
...results of his own journey are set forth in a compelling show of some 100 paintings and sketches on view through Jan. 15 at the Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris, "Delacroix: The Voyage to Morocco," curated by Brahim Alaoui...
Broadway isn't the only place for grand spectacle. At the Treasure Island hotel in Las Vegas, that Mecca of excess, the Montreal troupe Cirque du Soleil has created a gorgeously surreal, thrillingly theatrical pageant. Acrobats mingle with Adam and Eve, spaceship Earth and a giant snail in a fantasy of rebirth. It plays like the fever dream of some millennial impresario. Call him Siegfried Roy Webber...
...another. Jerry Brown made the roster, and his presidential bids came in 1976 and 1980 and again in 1992. Former Governor of Florida Reuben Askew ran in 1984, and Lamar Alexander, Secretary of Education in the Bush Administration, looks like he's trying for the 1996 G.O.P. nomination. Pete du Pont, the ex-Governor of Delaware, challenged Bush in the primaries in 1988, as did Donald Rumsfeld, Gerald Ford's Secretary of Defense; and Congresswoman Pat Schroeder was an undeclared candidate in 1988. Given this pattern of presidential ambition among the '74 selectees, we should not be surprised if Robert...