It also happens to be the setting of BBC1 historical drama du jour Poldark, and between those two it is now firmly enshrined as Britain's most desirable county.
The enormous Park Avenue Armory, site of the recent Cunningham farewell, will be the setting of Trisha Brown's reconstruction of "Astral Converted," a work from 1991 that features metal towers designed by Robert Rauschenberg (July 10-14).
JOHN THE DIVINE, in Morningside Heights, will be the setting of a definitely high-minded performance: the New Year's Eve Concert for Peace, an event championed by Leonard Bernstein in his lifetime.
One would be the setting of a regular prayer, "Mi Chamochah" ("Who Is Like You?"), to the Hanukkah melody known in Hebrew as "Maoz Tzur"— recognizable to many as a version of "Rock of Ages".
Thus, these officials said, the best that might be expected out of the Clinton effort would be the setting of some "parameters" for a deal that the Bush administration could pick up.
Next summer their own backyard, with its sweep of lawn and small pool (to which they've added a lap lane), is to be the setting of their son's marriage.
