Corcoran

What does power look like? What does it do to people? How can you tell who has it and who doesn't? No one has all the answers, of course, but valuable lessons can be gleaned from a timely, illuminating and, yes, powerful, new exhibit at Washington's Corcoran Gallery of Art. Richard Avedon: Portraits of Power is a 50-year retrospective of the work of one of America's foremost fashion photographers and portraitists, an ad man turned fine artist who...

The pregnancies of eight women from Maryland, Virginia and the District of Columbia will unfold over the next six months as a television series becomes a textbook on prenatal care.The live series, "Nine Months," will make public the changes and challenges in the lives of expectant mothers from a variety of lifestyles and situations. They range from a 15-year-old from Southeast Washington to a 36-year-old married woman with two children who lives in Annandale, Va. All are due to deliver their babies between March 15 and April 1, 1991.

A 65-year-old convicted murderer with failing health was being sought as a fugitive yesterday after walking away from his work-release job at a Jessup warehouse, state correctional officials said.L. V. "Lonny" Wade, serving life plus 20 years for the 1963 murder and robbery of a Baltimore grocer and an additional 10 years for a prior escape, was last seen at the warehouse about 3 p.m. Wednesday."He does not have great health. . . . He's clearly a senior citizen," said Thomas R. Corcoran, warden of the state's prerelease system.

CHESTERTOWN -- Simply because Navy scored more than nine goals for the first time this season, it didn't mean the offense would hear kind words from coach Bryan Matthews.After three straight nine-goal games, the Midshipmen (2-2) erupted yesterday for a 13-4 victory over Washington College (3-1) before 600 rain-drenched fans at Kibler Field."The defense was OK and we're happy with the W, of course, but the offense needs a lot of work," said Matthews, who played goalie at Washington and later coached the team for four years before going to Navy.

About four years ago, Samuel Hoi, dean of Washington's Corcoran School of Art, and the heads of five Washington-area arts centers decided to inaugurate a regional juried show, held at all six sites in 1994. This year, ArtSites expanded to 11 sites, including Baltimore's Maryland Art Place and School 33.There are organizational advantages. One call for entry was sent out to 10,000 addresses in Maryland, Washington and Virginia, resulting in 850 responses. Curators from the sites viewed the slides together over a three-day period and chose a total of 86 artists for their separate shows.

After the opening of Let's Dish on Jan. 4, 2005, in Timonium, the store's proprietors were amazed at the number of people traveling from Harford County to "dish." The basic premise of "dishing" is that people make reservations either online or by telephone, then they come to the store at their scheduled "dishing" time for meal preparation, which takes about two hours. "Every session was filling up," said Alexa Corcoran, who owns the Let's Dish stores in Maryland and Virginia along with her husband, Rick Corcoran, and Erik Ginsberg and Lisa Hardiman.

CAMDEN, N.J. -- No hotels, no bowling alleys, no movie theaters and only one chain supermarket remain in this city of 87,000, a once-thriving industrial mecca overtaken by burned-out rowhouses, boarded-up stores, open-air drug markets, weeds and trash.Yet here in a sunny, modern office sits Tom Corcoran, trying hard to market Camden as a tourist attraction on the banks of the Delaware River, with a sparkling view of the Philadelphia skyline and a historical hub in the midst of a renaissance.

Take a handful of dehydrated potato flakes. Mix with a quarter-pound of finely grated imitation cheese. Fold in 8 ounces of powdered skim milk, some raisins, raw carrots and tomato paste, add six slices of whole wheat bread, 2 cups of Great Northern beans and a can of spinach. Knead it into the shape of a meatloaf and bake it. Forty-five minutes later, you've got a "special management meal" - one of the latest tools used by Maryland's prison wardens to keep inmates in line. As brown and grainy as a bran muffin, the loaf tastes vaguely like the inside of a lima bean - but with less flavor.

Air-traffic controllers at BWI Airport barred several planes carrying anti-Castro banners from flying over Oriole Park during Monday's game with Cuba -- even though the Federal Aviation Administration permitted the flights.Spokesmen for the FAA and the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association, a general aviation group based in Frederick, say they are investigating the situation. Pilots in the Baltimore area say the decision smacked of midair censorship, and they complained about potential harm from the precedent.

Republican Charles J. Corcoran plans to cross party lines Tuesday for the first time in 39 years to vote for a Democrat: Susan B. Gray, the feisty challenger in the Howard County executive race.The 67-year-old retiree from Fulton is mad. He believes Howard's government under County Executive Charles I. Ecker betrayed him with its major zoning changes in 1993 -- changes that would increase the density of development and alter forever the rural character of western Howard.And Ms. Gray's candidacy -- and a related referendum that would give voters a say in zoning changes -- have now provided Mr. Corcoran and many others a slow-growth political banner around which to rally.