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...gallery walls tells whether there's any truth to legends about Gardner: "True: the attracted so much attention that the seats in the Boston Music hall without a view of her were sold at a reduced price," or "Maybe: she climbed out a convent school window in Paris to elope with Jack Gardner," or "False: she strolled pet lions down Beacon Street." But don't let such intriguing facts about the lady let you lose sight of Gardner's most important role personally and historically: that of a patron and collector...
Williams estimates that there were 18 students packed into the room, and there were not enough chairs for all of them. Some were forced to stand or lean on window sills for the entire hour...
Alarming as they were, the first, unconfirmed reports turned out to be understated. "We are lying prone on the floor," Christian Georlette, an aid worker for Oxfam, managed to phone back to the British aid group's headquarters on Thursday. "Every window in the house has been shattered by shrapnel and machine-gun fire, and soldiers are attacking the house next door with grenades. The fighting is really bad." Only later, however, would the full carnage of the latest ethnic violence in Rwanda be confirmed: the streets littered with corpses; the thousands killed in less than three days; the murder...
Humor is another tactic. Philip Morris has launched a campaign for Benson & Hedges that satirizes the nation's ongoing antismoking fervor. In the new / ads, smokers puff away on rooftops, window ledges and even airplane wings. The tag line: "The length you go to for pleasure." Karen Daragan, manager of media programs for Philip Morris U.S.A., calls it "our empathy campaign." Says she: "It makes smokers feel like they're not alone out there, and they're not the bad guy -- that they are 50 million strong, and they should be able to enjoy a cigarette in public places...
...since this is supposed to be a comedy, no one has the patience for a moving denouement. The Coens drag us through it anyway. They have foreshadowed the final scenes in the opening sequence, and the movie lurches and grinds towards the unwelcome appearance of Barnes on the window ledge high above the street. Like the other executives before him, we have to watch Barnes take his turn at contemplating suicide. It is neither funny nor suspenseful, just one more dull picture we have seen before...