Word: artists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...five children are away. He is fiercely protective of their privacy; they decline all requests for interviews. It is known that Son Ennis, 18, is studying prelaw at a black college in the South near his sister Erinn, 20, who studies psychology. Eldest Daughter Erika, 22, is an aspiring artist, painting in New York. The two younger girls, Ensa, 14, and Evin, 11, attend public schools in Massachusetts...
Certainly not all of Bork's rulings come out conservative. He authored an opinion for a three-member panel that ordered the Washington, D.C., transit authority to allow an artist to rent display space in subway stations for a poster critical of Reagan. But have his principles sometimes shifted to serve his ideological preferences? In attacking a proposed civil rights law in 1963, he wrote that it would be regrettable if "justifiable abhorrence of racial discrimination ((should)) result in legislation by which the morals of the majority are self-righteously imposed upon a minority...
When the editors of the Mesa Tribune in suburban Phoenix jumped into print early with copies of this week's Doonesbury cartoon strip, they knew they would be making news. The object of Artist Garry Trudeau's satire is Evan Mecham, Arizona's outspoken Republican Governor. The strips lampoon controversial remarks Mecham has made since taking office in January, including his description of recall-movement leaders as a "band of homosexuals and a few dissident Democrats." Mecham is not amused: he complained that the Doonesbury series "crossed the point of decency" and advised his lawyers to explore a possible libel...
...rain for up to six hours, hundreds of Muscovites waited last week outside the Pushkin Fine Arts Museum. Two years after his death and following more than half a century of official neglect, Marc Chagall was being honored in his native land with a major retrospective. Neither the artist's dreamy images of village life nor his Jewish themes endeared him to Soviet authorities. After Chagall went into voluntary exile in France in 1922, many of the works he had left behind were banished to museum storerooms...
...native son), Soprano Kathleen Battle, Conductor Riccardo Muti and Violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter are plastered in shop windows. Managers from the U.S. and Europe gather to plot the careers of performers and ensembles. Diners at the swank Goldener Hirsch restaurant near the Festspielhaus burst into applause whenever an artist enters...