August 3, 2009
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ART WARS continued:
For Your Consideration--
Steven Miessner, keeper
of the Academy's Oscars,
died of a heart attack at 48
on Wednesday, July 29, 2009:
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Steve Miessner, the keeper of the Oscars,
packages the statues for transport
to Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles
in preparation for the 81st
Academy Awards ceremony held
on Sunday, Feb. 22, 2009
(Chris Carlson/AP).From the date of
Miessner's death:
Log24 on Thursday, July 30, 2009
Annals of Aesthetics, continued:
Academy Awards
for Cambridge"First of all, I'd like
to thank the Academy."
-- Remark attributed to Plato
"A poem cannot exhaust reality,
but it can arrest it."-- At War with the Word:
Literary Theory and
Liberal Education,
by R. V. Young,
Chapter One"Who knows where madness lies?"-- Quoted here July 29, 2009
(the day the keeper of
the Oscars died)Possible clues:
From Google News at about
7 AM ET Mon., Aug. 3, 2009:
Henry Louis Gates Jr. mulls moving over death threats
Boston Herald - - 6 hours agoCHILMARK - Black scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. has received numerous death threats since he accused a white officer of ...Death threats may make Gates move
The Daily Inquirer - 4 hours agoHenry Louis Gates Jr. said yesterday that Harvard University suggested he move after receiving numerous death threats since he accused a white officer of ...
Gates: I've received death threats
NECN - 9 hours ago... Gates spoke at a book signing on Martha's Vineyard. He also said that he has received death and bomb threats after the incident at his Cambridge home. ...
Black scholar says he's able to joke about arrest
The Associated Press - - 17 hours agoGates said he received numerous threats after the incident, including an e-mail that read, "You should die, you're a racist." Gates has changed his e-mail ...
Gates grateful for island haven
Cape Cod Times - - 4 hours agoAs a result of death threats and bomb threats, he hasn't returned to his Cambridge home, leased from Harvard University. The university has encouraged him ...Gates makes public appearance after race debate
Worcester Telegram - - 20 hours agoGates, who spoke at a book signing on Martha's Vineyard Sunday, says there also have been some serious moments. He says he received death and bomb threats ...
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