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When Thomas Geyer started running the New Haven Register in 1986, the paper's Connecticut marketplace was booming. That made it possible to increase profits while simultaneously transforming a lackluster broadsheet into an editorially aggressive and graphically vibrant winner of awards, including the New England Newspaper Association's 1988 prize for the best Sunday paper of its size. But this year, as employment and house sales slowed, classified notices fell off 25%. The biggest display advertiser, the Macy's retail chain, cut its pages 15%. Overall, Register ad linage plummeted...
...King Oliver, Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton and Sidney Bechet, the story goes, the music thrived until the closing of the red-light district in 1917 sent many of the Crescent City's best players up the Mississippi in search of work. There they gave birth to the brash, vibrant Chicago sound, which helped lay the groundwork for what would eventually become the swing style that reigned during the Big Band...
...breadth and spirit of his pictorial work. This goal is admirably realized and results in an exhibit which is both dynamic and unified. Almost without exception, each individual piece is worthy of close inspection. But Marriage of Contours also displays a temporal progression in the style of this vibrant artist. The exhibit is an education not only in Le Corbusier's aims, but in learning to see forms...
...Jews remain in Germany today. Their number is minuscule, their presence barely visible -- certainly nothing like the vibrant and bustling pre-Hitler communities centered in Berlin, Frankfurt and other cities that accounted for nearly 1% of the population before 1933. Those who have chosen to live in Germany explain their presence in several ways: a continuing sense of a shared culture, a mission to prod German conscience and memory, and business opportunities...
...twelve windows represented in "Masterworks" pulse with a colorist's verve and ingenuity. Here are familiar nouveau nature themes: profusions of rowdy blooms and bursting vines, roe deer and sailboats bobbing on azure seas. In the 9-ft.-tall Cockatoo and Parakeet, a bird with opalescent feathers pecks at vibrant cherries. In the magnificent Landscape Triptych, Tiffany played with shade and light in a glade to produce landscape poetry worthy of the Hudson River school of painting. Vase of Red Peonies, dominated by a glorious clot of blossoms, prefigures abstraction...