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...what did he paint during those final years? One last great painting, of a terminally bored barmaid surrounded by a maze of mirror reflections, A Bar at the Folies Bergere. And flowers: many of them exquisite little watercolors (a briar rose, a snail on a leaf) done with rapid, sketchy delicacy, with notes to their recipients, mainly his women friends, written on the same page. Nothing indicates how he was suffering. His love of life and of style was too strong. In their sweet, private brevity, these tiny notes combining script and image are among the most "Japanese" images...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Still Fresh As Ever | 3/26/2001 | See Source »

...shame she wears the name Of a man that's locked and chained To a bottle that's destroyed all hopes and cares To the men with hungry eyes She works and hides her pride She's a barmaid in the honky tonk downstairs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: George's Gems | 11/3/2000 | See Source »

...Lockport Union-Sun & Journal in February 1992. Some of McVeigh's views are apparently shared by his younger sister Jennifer, 21, who wrote a letter to the paper herself last month, raging about Waco. Authorities are now questioning Jennifer, a student at Niagara County Community College and a former barmaid at the Crazy Horse Saloon in Buffalo, New York, which features Jell-O wrestling, where women, dressed in shorts and a top, wrestle male customers in a vat of lemon gelatin. She apparently told friends earlier this year that "something big is going to happen in March or April...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOMETHING BIG IS GOING TO HAPPEN | 5/8/1995 | See Source »

...self- portrait of the artist as an angry young man. Its most wrenching speech, about seeing a loved one die, is a replay of Osborne's witnessing the death of his father, an advertising copywriter in London. Jimmy's gibes at snooty relatives are Osborne's revenge on his barmaid mother Nellie Beatrice. Madeline, the lost love Jimmy pines for, is based on Stella Linden, a rep- company actress who first encouraged Osborne to write. At 21 he married actress Pamela Lane, whom he transformed with little rouge or camouflage into Alison. He photocopied Pamela's stoic bearing, her suspicious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The First Angry Man: John Osborne (1929-1994) | 1/9/1995 | See Source »

...this drama claims that the true hero of the American Revolution & was a barmaid named Nell. With David Ogden Stiers as Ben Franklin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It Could've Been Worse | 5/30/1994 | See Source »

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