Word: artists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some of the mysteries of the Patty Hearst case began to lift when the four were arraigned two hours later in a crowded San Francisco federal court. The first to be handled was Wendy Yoshimura, a Japanese-American artist who disappeared in 1972 after being charged with taking part in a plan to bomb the naval-architecture building on the Berkeley campus of the University of California. Federal authorities believe that she and Patty Hearst have been together since at least the summer of 1974. Magistrate Owen Woodruff dismissed federal fugitive charges against Yoshimura, and remanded her to the custody...
...Rushmore ("to show her place in history") and on the head of the Sphinx (because "that is the natural place for a woman"), Gescheidt has now fitted the former First Lady into the Mona Lisa. "The Mona Lisa is forever, and people are always interested in Jackie," said the artist. "She has the same inscrutable smile; it's dead perfect...
...beautiful face, which she has, but her quality as a woman." If Avedon's subjects are beautiful, so are his prices. An 8-in. by 10-in. print costs $175, while a couple of huge blowups, including a 360-in. by 96-in. enlargement of Artist Andy Warhol and members of The Factory, are on sale...
...brocade cope. As they watched, the prelate moved in front of a large table, pronouncing the words of blessing with a Maurice Chevalier accent and making the sign of the Cross over hammers and screwdrivers, a violin, a teacher's notebook, a housewife's wooden spoon, an artist's brushes...
...scholar and the relish of a storyteller. He manages to puncture the myth without deflating the life. From the moment she arrived in Paris in 1831, a 26-year-old berrichonne provincial fleeing from her small-spirited husband, rumor began placing her in bed with almost every author, artist, musician and revolutionary politician of her day. By Gate's count, however, Sand's liaisons numbered no more than 20−and (contrary to gossip) they were all with...