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Also fascinating is Morrisroe's account of Mapplethorpe's early incarnation as a macho frat boy, with his membership in the Perishing Rifles, Pratt's elite military organization, the description of whose hazing practices brings to mind nothing so much as the gay sadomasochistic rituals that came to fascinate the artist later in life. "In this case the "masters"...bound the pledges penises with one end of a rope, then attached bricks to the other end and ordered them to hurl the brick across the room...
...with the singer and writer Patti Smith. After the failure, for obvious reasons, of their sexual relationship, the two became lifelong friends finding comfort throughout their lives in their own warped version of domestic living. Morrisroe imbues the story with both affection and a knowing irony, as in her account of Smith's and Mapplethrope's household routines which included a fifty-fifty division of everything from household duties to a varied and plentiful drug stash...
Occassionally, however, the biographer's perceived duty to empathize becomes a burden. She too often minimizes Mapplethrope's sociopathic impulses, which appeared early on in childhood, when, according to the book, he took delight in killing his pets. Morrisroe also gives a bizarre account of the older Mapplethorpe's torture and starvation of his pets monkey, Scrath, whose skull he kept as a souvenir after the animal's death. Too often, these disturbing incidents are attributed to the various social pressures that Mapplethrope faced: Catholicism, his parents, his background. To be sure, much of the artist's behavior was supposed...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Questioned Friday about Hillary Clinton's alleged involvement in firing seven White House travel employees and the two-year delay in releasing former aide David Watkins' written account of the episode, White House spokesman Mike McCurry crisply replied, "Apparently previous searches were not exhaustive enough." The White House, notes TIME's Jeffrey Birnbaum, is feeling the heat as multiple investigations gain momentum. "This is one in a series of issues in which the First Lady and her associates are embroiled, and many more questions will be raised." Rep. William Clinger, chairman of the House committee that obtained...
...Speaker of the House that appears in this issue. "I'd ask her about some obscure detail about the appropriations process, or about some event that occurred 20 years ago that shaped his thinking. And within hours--sometimes minutes--she would call back with a rich, lucid account pulled from her notebooks." This she did, Tumulty notes ruefully, while closing on a new house, turning 40 and coping with being five months pregnant with her second child (she and husband Paul Richter have a son, Nicholas...