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Two monumental baby-head sculptures adorn Boston’s linked landscape as they rest on the Fenway entrance lawn of the Museum of Fine Arts. Presiding over the Fenway section of Fredrick Law Olmsted’s metaphorical emerald necklace, the baby heads’ ephemeral, innocent countenances encourage full-spectrum consideration of potential role-reversal relationships between
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Operation Finale recounts the post-World War II capture of Adolf Eichmann, one of the chief operating officers within Adolf Hitler's Holocaust bureaucracy. Based on historical detail, the dramatic film artfully develops a bi-focal vision of indelible atrocities executed by acolytes of the Führer and those who sought justice
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A Thousand Crossings is a visual folk-opera rooted in American experience but of international relevance. Composed by 67-year-old photographer Sally Mann of Lexington, Virginia, this presentation of 115 photographs captures many of the soulful notes heard throughout George and Ira Gershwin's lullaby Summertime from the melodramatic play Porgy
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America's oldest seaport, Gloucester, Massachusetts is 31 miles north of Boston. Settled in 1623 as an English colony, its charter predates both those of Salem and Boston (1626 and 1630, respectively). Because it was deemed too rocky to sustain a farming village most early settlers abandoned Gloucester and
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Fanning the flames of a dynastic torch, Pulitzer Prize winner Eileen McNamara rekindles interest in Kennedy lore with her book Eunice: The Kennedy Who Changed the World. McNamara's 300-page history lesson offers the psychological and practical details of why and how the frequently ill and frail woman harnessed
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WASHINGTON — Not long before before Mother's Day the First Lady of the United States, Melania Trump, invited a few dozen children with their families to join Vice President Mike Pence and his wife Karen, members of the administration, and members of Congress to the White House to witness
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Members of Red Sox Nation are eager to welcome the Boys-of-Summer back to Yawkey Way — aka~ our hometown Field of Dreams. Behind the storied gates of Fenway Park head groundskeeper Dave Mellor and his crew have readied the diamond for screaming base-hits, heart-stopping line-drives, and time-honored trash-talkin'. Generations of
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Before Mike "Rizzo" Eruzione took the ice as Captain of the 1980 Lake Placid Olympic hockey team, before he scored the winning goal for the USA in a medal-round matchup against the Soviet Union, and before ABC sportscaster Al Michaels coined the iconic phrase "Do you believe