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Fantastic!" says Michael Lewis, a small, spry man with a gray-flecked beard. "This is great...
...Beard Case...
...sedate world of ideas, a futurist who attempted, in his own words, "to cope with history before it happens." He was a pioneer in using scientific and mathematical tools to project the future. With his 300-lb. bulk and a florid face framed by a tailored white beard, Kahn had a commanding presence that seemed to complement a mental and verbal vigor bordering on arrogance. He briefed, and at times berated, every President starting with Harry Truman, and at his first hour-long meeting with Ronald Reagan in 1981, he permitted the new President to get in only...
...stained canvas, sewn together with an offhand and improvisatory air, misled some critics into thinking of him as a kind of craftsy '60s bricoleur fiddling with mandalas by the seaside. (The sight of Shields, 6 ft. 4 in., with his shaven bronze dome of a head, nautical beard and Queequeg-like mien, daintily stitching in a studio littered with harpoons and coot decoys, is one of the more striking images of role reversal the art world affords.) In fact, his imagination goes far beyond that: it has a sparkling, lyric quality, which comes not so much from preordained imagery...
...spends all his time telling people he's not a Mexican. Nobody really cares, but Martinez goes on and on saying he is a U.S. citizen with Argentine bloodlines. Martinez was growling that his recruiting officer sold him out. "I hate the Marines," he said. "I want my beard back! I want hair! My time is up in February 1985, and I ain't looking back, man. I wanted combat engineering. I wanted to be somebody when I got out. They give me infantry. So what are my skills? I could be a security guard, or I could...