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Wet With Blood; The Investigation of Mary Todd Lincoln's Cloak: A fascinating source online at the Chicago History Museum as their textile conservation laboratory investigates the authenticity of a cloak reportedly belonging to Lincoln's wife A New Museum Destination: Consider a Grigor Khanjyan mural; an exhibit of photographs by Patti Boyd (the ex-wife of Beatle George Harrison and guitarist Eric Clapton); an installation of 24 Swarovski light socks and Dale Chihuly's Ikebana installation. The newly opened Cafesjian Center for the Arts could be a worthy addition to the museum world Current Reading, Screen Memories: Movies seem to be, increasingly, for and about men and (mostly male) kids, with adult women in the marginal roles of wives and mothers, there to be avenged, resented or run to when things get too scary Val Castronovo, The O’Keeffe show at the Whitney is the first to study, and celebrate, her abstract works: Viewing images at close range enhances abstraction, and it also, for her, was used to suggest the sheer enormity of nature. It is this sheer enormity that led O’Keeffe into, and back to, abstraction. Where words would not suffice, color, line and shapes — abstraction — would The Famed and Controversial Sargent Murals at Boston's Public Library: "The painting that sparked the outrage was Sargent's 1919 work 'Synagogue,' in which the subject is depicted as a blindfolded old woman fallen to the floor, her crown toppled, the structure around her in ruins" CultureWatch: A Gate at the Top of the Stairs is about loss, cruelty of others, as well as prejudice, dishonesty and betrayals that somehow combine humor with heartbreak. The Locust and the Bird will send those who aren’t familiar with Hanan Al-Shaykh's earlier books rushing to the library. Nine Lives, Death and Life in New Orleans may be nonfiction, but the author makes it as affecting as any novelist could |
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Doris O'Brien, Stealth Wealth: The New Brown-Baggers — As America increasingly divides along economic lines, the rich have become targets of disdain and envy. Not that they haven't always been, but now there are rumblings of an egalitarian movement in America to bring the wealthy down several notches to a level closer to where the rest of us find ourselves Nichola Gutgold reviews When Everything Changed;The Amazing Journey of American Women From 1960 to the Present: It is these stories that serve not only to entertain but to caution the next generation of women to keep pressing on, and to be appreciative of the hard won progress of women who have gone before Girls in the Juvenile Justice System: "From 1995 through 2005, the number of girls’ cases nationwide involving detention increased 49 percent, compared to a seven percent increase for boys. Compared to white girls: African American girls are sent to adult prison over five times as often and Native American girls three times as often" |
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Shopping for Children: Mahar Drygoods includes a Spooky House decorating kit, Jurassic teething blocks, Black Apple bookplates, Color Burst blankets as well as bunnies and tea sets that can be knitted and crocheted by downloadable patterns Wordsmiths; an Anthology of Writing by Teens on the Web: "Adults don't understand the love we have for one another they think what we have is jus' a faze but I'm sure we'll stay together stronger than ever for the rest of our days" Social Isolation and New Technology, a new Pew report: Internet users are 38% less likely to rely exclusively on their spouses/partners as discussion confidants. People who use modern information and communication technologies have larger and more diverse social networks |
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Julia Sneden, Pursuit of the Perfect Purse: It needs to have a voice-activated homing device that emits a loud and long squeal so that I can call to it (“Purse, purse, where are you?”) the next time I absent-mindedly hang it on the back of a chair and then throw my coat over it, rendering it invisible when I start looking for it again. Make that a really loud and really long squeal Mary Delany and her Circle, an exhibit: At the age of seventy-two, Mary Delany, (1700–1788), a botanical artist, woman of fashion, and commentator on life and society in eighteenth-century England and Ireland, embarked on a series of one thousand botanical collages, or paper mosaics Shopping by Culture, Ancient Egypt: "The Ancient Egyptians were highly skilled in the use of herbs and spices for medicines, cooking, cosmetics, perfumes and many other purposes ... Lise Manniche has reconstructed an herbal of 94 species of plants and trees used from before the pharaohs to the Coptic period" Shop for Family and Yourself: Sublet Eco-Apparel's clothing for women is shapely, well-styled, very feminine, inexpensive and made in the USA. They're made from sustainable materials. What more could you ask? |
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Reports on Assessing and Valuing Cancer Care and Exercising With Arthritis: The Institute of Medicine's free online report about a cancer care workshop and Harvard's Healthbeat newsletter report about a report on deciding to exercise with arthritis New Recommendations about Pap Tests: Following on the heels of the AHRG's new guidelines for mammography screening, the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists recommend that the first cervical cancer screening be delayed until age 21, less frequent Pap tests and dropping the test after 65 under certain circumstances The H1N1 Flu Epidemic Surveilled and Film Noir Referenced: Panic in the Streets, "a film noir that relies on the familiar Hollywood staples of the gangster, gumshoe detective, and policeman to produce a tale that is as much about the hysteria that gripped the US during McCarthyism as humans' instinctive fear of devastating diseases" |
| Joan Cannon, Making Thoughtful Plans For a Retirement Home: We used a guide that brought up such important issues as proportion of women to men (many places are almost entirely populated by females); availability of a cottage arrangement; attitude towards pets; cultural and other amenities within a reasonable distance The Card Game, An Examination of Credit Card Company Practices on Frontline: "As credit card companies face rising public anger, new regulation from Washington and a potential perfect storm of economic bad news, Frontline examines the future of the massive consumer loan industry" A CRR paper asks, Why Do Married Men Claim Social Security Benefits So Early? Ignorance or Caddishness? Most married men claim Social Security benefits at age 62 or 63 ... But essentially the entire loss is borne by the survivor benefit, falling nearly 20 percent. As many elderly widows have very low incomes, early claiming by married men is a major social problem Defining Dark Pools of Liquidity: When dark pools share information about their trading interest with other dark pools, they can function like private networks that exclude the public investor
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