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...measure a baseball fan by his boyhood heroes. On the wall behind Fay Vincent's desk is the original artwork from Whitey Ford's 1953 Topps baseball card, a talisman of the bygone era when the New York Yankees symbolized success, stability and smug superiority. If Joe DiMaggio personified grace, and Mickey Mantle represented God-given talent, then Ford, the gritty little lefty ace of the pitching staff, was guile elevated to Hall of Fame standards. This quality is not lost on the baseball commissioner, who says with reverence, "He had the greatest pick-off move to first...
Until recently, authorities have been largely inclined to stay clear of pop culture or artwork -- areas where obscenity convictions could be almost impossible to obtain -- and concentrate instead on hard-core porn. Los Angeles prosecutors, by targeting materials that depict bestiality, defecation, sex with children and the torture of women, won all 26 obscenity cases they have brought since 1988. At the federal level, the Justice Department secured 120 obscenity indictments last year, up sharply from 26 in 1987. But the department's National Obscenity Enforcement Unit has tended to focus on nationwide wholesalers of the hard-core stuff...
There is no kind of artwork that has not been forged, from Cycladic idols to Watteaus, from medieval manuscripts to rococo porcelain elephants, from Michelangelo drawings to paintings by Constable, Picasso or (a great favorite) Renoir. It used to be said that Camille Corot painted 800 pictures in his lifetime, of which 4,000 ended up in American collections...
...helpful as they are, however, computers are not creative -- at least not yet. Lertola still does all preliminary doodles with a pencil. What the computer does, he says, is "get artwork ready for printing a lot quicker than two years ago." On paper or on the computer, Lertola has been designing graphics for most sections of TIME since 1983, but his special fascination is with things scientific. He has been called upon to diagram such arcana as Halley's comet and the human immune system...
...Harvard participants--recruited by Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA) and Harvard Neighborhood Development (HAND)--will distribute art supplies next month to elementary school students who will create artwork based on their ethnic backgrounds. The Harvard students will then help collect the artwork and assemble each of the approximately 35,000 pieces into a large mural at Roxbury Community College...