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...radio talk show in Seattle, a caller maintained that Brill was wrong, that Hoffa was still alive. "Why, I was just down in Argentina this summer, and I was in a bar, and there was Jimmy Hoffa, belly up to the bar, sipping a beer and chatting with Adolph Hitler." Brill told the caller, "Hey, fella, I think you got a bigger story there than just Jimmy Hoffa...
...hindsight, one can easily see where they got their language: how Gorky's spidery, fluent line emerged from Miro, how the bulging shapes of early de Kooning derive from '30s Picasso, what Rothko got from Max Ernst and Pollock from Kandinsky, and how deeply Adolph Gottlieb's pictographs were influenced by Victor Brauner. But that is perhaps of secondary importance. What counts most in this show is the spectacle of those obscure but desperately committed artists painting as though art had the power to change life, as though culture itself depended on their efforts: which...
...respond to anyone's wishes but his own. A tyrant has no followers, only subjects, Burns argues. As a competitor in "a political marketplace," a leader must also have moral purpose to appeal and respond to his followers' wants and needs. In Burns's judgment, the Spiro Agnews and Adolph Hitlers of the world who pander to "the base instincts of persons" embody "the very negation of leadership." Leadership moves humanity towards betterment, not destruction...
...Without water, we wash fewer glasses and that saves energy," argues Restaurateur Adolph Santina. "Not that many people ask for it these days. They are now drinking wine...
...Steak that Holds at Rare for Three Hours"). Then there is the newsweekly Seven Days ("the magazine which is on your side") and the environment-minded Mother Jones ("for the rest of us"). In trying to reach freespending 18-to 34-year-olds, the New York Times (imagine this, Adolph Ochs!) ballyhoos Us, an imitation of People, as "journalism a new way-their way; lots of pictures, lots of fun, quick and easy for this brought-up-on-TV generation." Clay Felker, whose innovative but now languishing New York magazine produced so many imitators, is trying to rehabilitate Esquire. Where...