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...Museum of Fine Arts is, in its own words, "Providing Easterners with a rare look at this country's Far Western heritage." I will refrain from a snide comment that it's high time the Eastern Seaboard realized that heritage does exist West of the Rockies, but I can't comment on "Frontier America: The Far West" because I haven't gotten over to see it yet. The exhibit is the first of the MFA's bicentennial program, and includes household objects, drawings, paintings and photographs...
Persistently, almost rhythmically, the prosecutor repeated the question. Soon, everyone in the courtroom, including the pained witness, could anticipate it. For some, the impulse to join in the refrain was difficult to resist. In his deceptively soft Tennessee drawl, Chief Prosecutor James Neal would ask: "Now, you wanted to get the truth out, Mr. Ehrlichman?" That has been Defendant John Ehrlichman's claim in the Watergate conspiracy trial. But with searing effect, Neal shredded that defense by repeatedly showing how much Ehrlichman had known about the cover-up and how little he had disclosed to investigators...
...restaurant and play for an omelette--what a tough crowd that was." Misch was fortunate enough this night to have a shill blurt out a well-timed "If you're funny enough--any egg will crack up," to obscure the dreaded silence. But he'd do best to refrain from the clinkers and stick with his own fresh material. In a comic field sorely needing new humor. Misch seems to have his own little monopoly of laughs...
...Ladies" is a heart-felt ballad of fallen women whose flute and guitar lines immediately call to mind "Sossity: You're a Woman," the final song of the Benefit sessions. The chorus is also reminiscent of the Sossity refrain and is polyphonically mixed to give a dreamy portrayal of the ladies' allure. The tune closes with an upbeat rhythm phrase bolstered by the orchestra's solid horn section...
...success in the marketplace), he succumbed to an almost paranoid embitterment, watching "realist" landscape triumph over his ideal form of it in the 1830s. For the naturalists, Friedrich had one last word. "If [the artist] sees nothing within him," he wrote, "then he should also refrain from painting what he sees before him. Otherwise his pictures will be like those folding screens behind which"-startling phrase-"one expects to find only the sick or the dead...