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Artists of loftier vocation expatriated themselves to study in England and to absorb the classic mastery of Renaissance portraiture. John Singleton Copley was one such, but before he left U.S. shores, he had already put together a masterly portrait gallery of some of his fellow Bostonians. His Portrait of Nathaniel Hard, a famed silversmith and engraver, stares back at the observer with a keen, curious, probing intensity that is uncannily lifelike. As John Adams said of Copley's portraits: "You can scarcely help discoursing with them, asking questions and receiving answers...
Most major credit-card companies grimly absorb these losses themselves. But to protect holders against laws making cardholders liable for charges until their loss has been reported, a St. Louis company called Saf-Card Inc. has announced a plan by which, for $20 annually, Saf-Card will indemnify the holder for up to $10,000 in purchases run up on a card by champagne spenders with mickey finn morals...
...nothing much is missed if all of this is skipped. There is no lasting culinary memory to be taken from the fair, as there was in 1939 when the Pavilion's Henri Soulé made his U.S. debut at the French pavilion. Moreover, great Curnonskian meals absorb too much time. The smartest way to eat is to bring your own sandwiches or buy a quick one in a place like Liebmann Breweries' oldtime tavern, where a fast beer and a ham on rye cost...
Galbraith ridiculed the notion that only Nehru's personal magnetism could hold the Congress Party--and India--together. Western fears of political turmoil, said Galbraith, are "a tribute to the popular tendency to absorb the most powerful cliche...
...when Kiesler made a show of "Environmental Sculpture" that opened last week in the Guggenheim Museum, he proposed to do over an entire gallery. "You can't absorb the room in one glance," explains Kiesler. "You must know what's above, below-again the totality." Part of the whole, called The Last Judgment, consists of a huge bonelike shaft of fire-gilt bronze that thrusts through a Plexiglas slab at counterimages of heaven and earth. It leaps up at an aluminum table whose bronze legs look like lightning bolts and jabs down at a white bronze floor plate...