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...social vision of French lithographers, especially Gavarni and Daumier, he kept his satire for the illustrations he did for The Masses and other left-wing magazines. His painted world was more amiable, with its fleshy, rosy girls in dance halls or promenading in Washington Square Park--a Brooklyn Fragonard whispering to a Hester Street Renoir. Sloan saw his people as part of a larger totality, the carnal and cozy body of the city itself, where even the searchlight on top of Madison Square Garden, he wrote, "was scratching the belly of the sky and tickling the building." He liked...
Back in November, when no one was taking him very seriously, Forbes might wander off subject and discuss 19th century farming in Nigeria, the infield of the old Brooklyn Dodgers or how in 1820 Americans consumed four times more alcohol on average than they do today. Gone are the self-deprecating gibes about his family business. "I guess you can say I came to the attention of management at an early age," Forbes would say with a grin. His winning quirkiness these days is shielded by a layer of wounded suspicion. When a voter in Earlham, Iowa, asked him whether...
Redstone has been especially concerned with the performance of Paramount Pictures, the glamorous centerpiece of Viacom's $10 billion acquisition of Paramount Communications in 1994. The studio has had a string of box-office disappointments lately--including Sabrina, Jade and A Vampire in Brooklyn--and Redstone complained that too many films were put into production with subpar scripts. The Viacom boss has been spending a growing amount of time in Hollywood, attending marketing meetings and consulting on details as small as what promotional knickknacks to send to video stores overseas to help push Paramount product...
COLOR PHOTO: MARK PETERSON--SABA FOR TIME THE BEAT GOES ON: Despite Bratton's tough policies, some community patrol officers, like John Cayenne of Brooklyn's 77th Precinct, still have a soft touch [Police officer John Cayenne with children...
...Connor sits in his Brooklyn office and fields calls from the media. "We made a mistake," he says grimly. "We will try to make sure this never happens again." Looking back, he says, "I should have thrown bombs in the CWA's doorway." The initials themselves infuriate him. At least, he says, "we will say our mea culpa. We're not going to run behind confidentiality laws and not admit we've made a mistake...