Word: boys
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fourth-year graduate student, Sandburg has always loved excavation. He says museums and archaeological artifacts have fascinated him ever since he was a little boy. By the time he was a teenager, his parents wanted to see just how deep-felt this interest was. "My parents were saying 'Enough of this archaeology stuff. Send him out and see if he likes getting his hands dirty...
Louis was only 49 when he died of lung cancer in 1962, and his early death made him the Thomas Chatterton of formalism, the "marvelous boy," dying just as his genius was ready to blossom. He owes his reputation to the critic Clement Greenberg, who was also his coach. It is not really true, as has often been said, that Greenberg told Louis what to paint, though he probably had more influence over this lonely, gifted and insecure man than any American critic has had over any other artist. Nevertheless, Louis' instinct for light as the primal theme of painting...
...many ways, Long was the spitting image of his daddy. Both were flamboyant orators, given to bursts of wild energy and extravagant gestures. But whereas the father was a radical who preached a sharing of the wealth and derided the Senate's old-boy clubbiness, the son was known to court Big Business and never felt so comfortable as in the clannish, wood-paneled environs of the Capitol...
...dress is positively brawny. Wearing one is like being brushed by cobwebs. His fashion has an urbane modernity that stands in stark contrast to the antiquity that enveloped him as he was growing up. Born in the soil-rich region of Romagna, Gigli was "surrounded by books" as a boy. His father and grandfather were antiquarian booksellers, and, the designer remembers, "We always lived in houses full of antique furniture and paintings -- beautiful but uncomfortable." His Milan studio, staffed with six associates, is unfussy; his apartment has lots of white space and green plants, and that is where he does...
...Defense Minister burns with a desire for recognition more powerful than most. Born 62 years ago in northern Luzon, Enrile was the illegitimate son of a poor village girl. At 21 he finally met his father, a well-to-do Manila lawyer who had only recently learned of the boy's existence. Subsequently Enrile studied law at the University of the Philippines, where he mingled with the Filipino elite. His classmates included Vice President Laurel, whose father had been President during the Japanese occupation of World War II, and Cabinet Executive Secretary Joker Arroyo, the scion of a land-rich...