Two collections of New York photographs, one a selection from a magazine's vast archives and the other a study of the city in the wee hours, might make great holiday gifts for fans of New York and its past.
The board issued two reports early this year, one a statistical survey by university researchers of the number of minors abused by priests and the other a study of the factors that gave rise to the scandal.
What an exhausting double bill these mirror image films would make: one a symphony of ever-escalating combat; the other a study in the awful sound of silence, both ratcheting up the anxiety with aplomb.
What the notices do not say is that one of the two lost artworks is a print by Picasso, and the other a study for a re-creation of Picasso's legendary painting "Guernica" by Sophie Matisse, the great-granddaughter of Henri Matisse.
1. Gaze at a photo of your significant other A study by Helen Fisher, an anthropologist at Rutgers University, found that when people look at a photo of their loved one for 30 seconds or longer, their brain begins producing dopamine, a libido booster.
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