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THE SUNDAY REPUBLICAN JULY 16, 2006
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CONCERT REVIEW James Levine returns.
The formally decommissioned conductor
receives a big “Bravo!” on opening night of the
2006 Tanglewood season. 6H
rts& ntertainment
Dogisms See 2 doggone
Dogs appear in more than a few idiomatic expressions, the origins
exhibits at once
and meanings of which many of us might not realize.
The Bruce Museum of
Dog fight: Close-range aerial combat. During World War I, opposing fighter
Arts and Science is at
pilots would maneuver themselves to better fire at one another. From the
1 Museum Drive,
ground, the dueling aircraft looked like two dogs chasing tails.
Greenwich.
Three-dog night: The Australian aborigines, and others, slept with dogs to
“The Nature of Dogs” is
keep themselves warm. So, a three-dog night was considered especially
open through Nov. 26.
chilly. It’s also the name of an American rock band from the 1960s and ’70s.
“Best in Show” is open
Dog days: Hot summer days. Ancient Egyptians and Romans noticed the
through Aug. 27.
brightest star in the sky, Sirius, or the dog star, rose and set with the sun on
the hottest day of the year. A number of dog-themed
activities are lined up this
Barking up the wrong tree: An incorrect lead or assumption. During foxhunts,
summer, including a lec-
hounds would chase foxes up into trees and bark at the trunk. If the fox fooled
ture and tea-and-punch
the hound, the dog would be “barking up the wrong tree.”
reception with Chris
Byrne, president and
Turn to PAGE 5H for more dogisms. founder of Dogs Unlimit-
ed LLC and director of K-
9 One Bomb Detection
Services, on July 25.
a little bow wow
For information:
(203) 869-0376 or visit
www.brucemuseum.org.
‘Terracotta Dog,’
Colima, Mexico, 300
B.C. to 300 A.D.
COURTESY OF THE
Man’s best friend focus of BRUCE MUSEUM
new Bruce Museum exhibit
BY CARRIE MACMILLAN
REPUBLICAN-AMERICAN
“I could never quite take dogs for granted.
Why should they delight in our company and
welcome us home in transports of joy? There
were so many different shapes, sizes and
colours, yet they all had the same fundamen-
tal characteristics. Why? Why?”
T
hose words from James Herriot, Eng-
lish veterinarian and author of “All Crea-
tures Great and Small,” open a new exhibit
on dogs at Greenwich’s Bruce Museum of
Arts and Science.
“The Nature of Dogs,” on view through Nov. 26, is
a family-friendly show that draws a circuitous line
from wolves to man’s best friend and offers a
dog’s view of the world through a variety of
sensory, interactive displays. It complements
the museum’s “Best in Show: Dogs in Art
from the Renaissance to the Present,” an
exhibition running through Aug. 27.
See EXHIBIT, Page 5H
May we say the Portland
exhibit is divine? Mais oui!
Henri de
Toulouse-
Lautrec
(France,
1864–1901) a streak; the grain fields are paint that could be taken in to
BY TRACEY O’SHAUGHNESSY
‘Troupe de great shocks of yellow hair; open air and a general dissatis-
REPUBLICAN-AMERICAN
Mlle Églantine,’ fields of alfalfa, long green faction with conventional art.
circa 1890 In 1837, traveling on one of tresses.” All of that is true, of course,
France’s zippy new trains, Vic- Welcome to the modern but it undercuts the role of ve-
COURTESY
tor Hugo stared out the window world, Victor, where the opera- locity in the development of Im-
OF THE PORTLAND
MUSEUM OF ART
and described what he saw: tive word is fast. pressionism.
“The flowers by the side of the It’s been hard-wired into our The Portland Art Museum in
road are no longer flowers but brains that Impressionism, Portland, Maine, has assembled
flecks, or rather streaks, of red America’s favorite French im- a charming collection of
and white: there are no longer port, came out of revolutionary
See PARIS, Page 5H
any points, everything becomes advances in optics, tubes of