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...Charcoal suit, daring red tie with blue and white stripes Personal References Mentions Barbara twice, admits that divorce happens even in his own family. Didn't mention anyone in his family. "I was born to a widowed mother..." "I grew up in the segregated South..." "Tonight is my 17th wedding anniversary..." "My brother is a recovering drug addict..." Gaffes . Calls AIDS a "behavioral problem" . "I'm very disappointed in Magic" . Mispronounces Sarajevo . Outlines 90-day legislative blitz for first days in office that begins Nov. 4--three months before he would take office. . Obvious loss of voice . Doesn't attempt...
...Surprisingly, given the enormous reputation Ribera had in his day, this is the first comprehensive exhibition of his work ever held in America, or for that matter in Europe (it was previously shown in Naples and Madrid). It rounds off the series of shows by Spanish artists of the 17th and 18th centuries -- Murillo, Zurbaran, Velazquez, Goya and now lo Spagnoletto, "the Little Spaniard," as Ribera was known to his Italian admirers -- designed to close gaping holes in our collective art-historical knowledge, and to make concrete sense of the pictorial achievements of what imperial Spain called its siglo...
...Ribera's known career lies outside Spain. He emigrated to Italy, that artistic magnet of the 17th century, when he was hardly out of his teens and spent most of his life in Spanish-ruled Naples, doing commissions for the Italian church and expatriate Spanish grandees. He rapidly became the unchallenged star of Neapolitan painting and remained so until his death in 1652. Until recently, his art stayed in a sort of limbo; very few visitors to the Prado would ever turn out of the traffic stream headed for Velazquez to take a good look at the great Riberas, like...
...Spain, what paintings influenced him as a young man -- little has been found. We know more about his shopping lists than his personality, not because Ribera was self-effacing (you would infer, from the work, a character of singular, even uncomfortable, vividness) but because artists in the 17th century rarely left the paper trail they...
...spite of his ostensible position as Perot's main adviser, Swindle has not been given the title of either campaign manager or political director. The rest of the inner circle are more like conventional field operatives, jumping when they receive Perot's frequent calls from his 17th-floor office in a Dallas high-rise, 2 1/2 miles from campaign headquarters. Clayton Mulford's main job since February has been to help get Perot on the ballot in 50 states and make sure the campaign complies with federal election rules and reporting requirements. Press secretary Sharon Holman, 45, has worked...