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...preventing the fire from spreading through the rest of the church. As daylight crept into the now roofless transept, the full scope of the tragedy became apparent: littered with six-foot-high piles of charred debris and fallen beams, the area resembled nothing so much as a bombed-out shell. But the destruction had been limited. Five-sixths of the church, including a huge wooden sculpture of the Virgin and Child, remained unharmed. Best of all, the minster's priceless medieval stained glass largely escaped serious damage. Said Chief Fire Officer Ralph Ford: "The Lord was on our side...
...their eyes. No animal seems more, well, humane than the American lobster, as portrayed by Stewart. Most sea creatures are love-them-and-leave-them suitors, impregnating their mates, then allowing them to fend for themselves. Not the crustacean, whose mate must shed not only her defenses but her shell when she visits his underwater den. Sensing something about vulnerability, he lets her stay a week or more until her new shell is grown...
...classicism of La Pittura Colta is a mere shell, and its vaunted erudition is as thin as a museum postcard. All it retains from the beaux-arts tradition is the desire to get the highlight on the Spartan's backside right-not that it always does so. It has the calm not of classical elevation but of exhausted decadence. The Venetian setting is unfair to it, for anyone can take the water-bus back to the Scuola di San Rocco and see what Tintoretto could do with the human figure. The right place for it is Las Vegas, among...
Your retelling of D-day reminded me of my landing on Juno Beach with the Canadian 3rd Division. My first contact with the French occurred when I encountered the village cure. He had a sour look, perhaps because a shell had torn a hole in the spire of his 17th century church. "Bonjour, Monsieur le Curé," I greeted him. "Are you happy that we have come?" "Yes," he replied, "but I will be happier when you leave." Memories like this give me mixed emotions when I march with my fellow veteran survivors...
...warning about going to The Channel: all evening shows end after the subway closes, so be prepared to shell out up to $10 to get back to Harvard, if you can find a cab. Otherwise, you may have to hoof it to the Common...