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Young Mrs. Kennedy, in her early 30s, in the pillbox hat, or the bloody pink suit, or the black veil, became one of the urdivinities of the paleotelevision age. By the time she died, she was still arguably the most famous woman on earth. Who else -- Madonna? Princess Di? (The falloff in quality is steep...
...says, "so at all costs I avoid getting in her way." His next book is a novel, tentatively titled The Promise of Rest and on schedule to be finished by Labor Day. "It deals with the complex situation that develops when a man in his early 30s comes home to Durham to his recently separated parents to die of AIDS. I think of it as my stint as an AIDS nurse. Because of my condition, I could not enter into that unbelievably grueling but fascinating process when my friends were dying...
...30s and '40s, up into the '50s, the Jews were the primary merchants in the black community. Wherever we were, they were. What was their role? We bought food from them; we bought clothing from them; we bought furniture from them; we rented from them. So if they made profit from us, then from our life they drew life and came to strength. They turned it over to the Arabs, the Koreans and others, who are there now doing what? Sucking the lifeblood of our own community...
...wasn't a place to find stars, or the press, or major industry movers -- no Michael Ovitzes, Barry Dillers or Steven Spielbergs. Instead, the horde consisted of the callused foot soldiers of Hollywood: agents, producers, entertainment lawyers, talent managers and screenwriters -- most of them in their 20s and 30s, all busily looking for clients, jobs, gossip, attention...
Begun in the 30s and 40s, the program did not become focused on contemporary art until 1972, when it obtained a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts and a private donor began a purchase fund. Today, the program supports itself by reinvesting profits earned from rental in insurance and new purchases. The works, which include pieces by many big-name artists, such as Warhol, Rauschenberg and Miro, as well as newer, more up-and-coming artists, are purchased by the Museum from the artists themselves, or from galleries or publishers...