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True New Yorker
About two years ago, when rats came down from a lowquat tree and began scratching around and scuttling around in the crawl space beneath our Venice home, I made my wife laugh (and wince) by reading to her from Joseph Mitchell's classic 1944 New Yorker...Tags: Family, Jane Austen, Animal Science, Stanley Tucci, Salman Rushdie
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In 1776, independence spirit thrives in Long Island
bill.bleyer@newsday.comWHEN Huntington patriots learned that the Declaration of Independence had been approved in the summer of 1776, they read it aloud, marched in impromptu parades and hanged an effigy of King George III before burning it to ashes. That evening, still in...Tags: Lloyd Harbor, Government, National Government, John Hancock, Slavery
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In 1776, independence spirit thrives in Long Island
bill.bleyer@newsday.comWhen Huntington patriots learned that the Declaration of Independence had been approved in the summer of 1776, they read it aloud, marched in impromptu parades and hanged an effigy of King George III before burning it to ashes. That evening, still in a...Tags: Government, National Government, Slavery, Jericho, Town of North Hempstead
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Robert Rauschenberg was a defier of convention
Sun Art CriticRobert Rauschenberg, the multifaceted artist who pioneered a new sense of openness and unlimited possibility in American painting, sculpture, photography and printmaking, died Monday at his home in Captiva Island, Fla. He was 82. Mr. Rauschenberg was...Tags: John Cage, Jasper Johns, Sculpture, Merce Cunningham, Baltimore Museum of Art
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We're the man, Indy!
After seeing the first Indiana Jones film, "Raiders of the Lost Ark," in 1981, I sat in the dark theater shaken, amazed. How, I wondered, did some Hollywood scriptwriter catch the essential Bob Hughes so well? I mean, it was one thing to capture the...Tags: Harrison Ford, Davy Crockett, Indiana Jones
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Pop artist Robert Rauschenberg dies in Fla.
Pop artist Robert Rauschenberg's mediums knew few bounds.
One of his most famous works or "combines" was "Bed," created when he woke up in the mood to paint but had no money for a canvas. His solution was to take the quilt off his bed and use paint,...Tags: Death and Dying, John F. Kennedy, Walt Whitman, Museum of Modern Art, Guggenheim Museum
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What autism means to a father
Knowing that I have a 21-year-old son with autism, a colleague turned to me to learn the meaning of the latest statistics on autistic births. "What does this number, 1 in 150 births, really mean?" my friend asked, citing a study from the American Academy...Tags: Family, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Mental Illness, Medical Specialization, Health Organizations
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Artist mixed paint, sculpture, cast-offs
Times Art CriticRobert Rauschenberg, the protean artist from small-town Texas whose imaginative commitment to hybrid forms of painting and sculpture changed the course of American and European art between 1950 and the early 1970s, died Monday night, according to New...Tags: Photography, Dance, Illnesses, John Cage, Venice
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Saving Coltrane's 'castle'
gene.seymour@newsday.comEven now, with its walls stripped bare, its chipped basement walls showing the effects of water damage, and its frayed and stained carpeting, it's still possible to see John Coltrane's house in Dix Hills as what it was -- and what it could become....Tags: Town of Huntington, Death and Dying, Music Industry, Diseases, Health and Safety at School
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Dramatist Donald Margulies sees the stage in a fresh light
Special to The TimesMore than a quarter century ago, the critic Robert Hughes called the public's response to Modern art "the shock of the new." The role of art was to stimulate ideas, provoke thought, challenge ways of seeing. Today, we are experiencing a different,...Tags: Consumers, Family, TiVo Inc., Broadway, James Frey
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