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Smithsonian tells all: 'Don't Be Afraid'
Aug 19 2005 2:23PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Braving summer showers, billboard workers mounted a 70-by-35-foot artwork on the curved facade of the Smithsonian's Hirshhorn Museum on Friday, its message encouraging passers-by: "Don't be afraid."
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Wartime letters tell similar stories
Aug 19 2005 1:43PM (CT)
CANTON, Ohio (AP) - The Civil War era letters are hard to read, with aging paper, occasional poor spelling and grammar, and words wrapped in the formal cursive of the time.
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Can't wait for a book? Paris can help
Aug 19 2005 9:40AM (CT)
PARIS (AP) - Readers craving Homer, Baudelaire or Lewis Carroll in the middle of the night can get a quick fix at one of the French capital's five newly installed book vending machines.
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Chicago to unveil rest of Bean sculpture
Aug 19 2005 8:02AM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - The shell is coming off the Bean. Parts of Millennium Park's "Cloud Gate" sculpture _ popularly known as the Bean because of its shape _ have been under a tent for months as workers labored to finish the welding, sanding and polishing needed to get rid of the seams on its surface.
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Review: Seldes astonishing in 'Dedication'
Aug 19 2005 7:58AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - It's quite simple. Marian Seldes is a playwright's best friend. Whether Chekhov, Albee, Simon or Kaufman and Ferber, the actress knows how to command the stage, giving an author the best possible showcase.
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Chicago icon Terkel has complex surgery
Aug 19 2005 7:37AM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - Writer, radio host and oral historian Studs Terkel, a 93-year-old Chicago icon, has been released from the hospital after undergoing risky open-heart surgery _ with doctors calling the Pulitzer Prize winner's recovery "spectacular."
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