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...Ambassador, Jeane Kirkpatrick, by admiring a magazine article she wrote). Now Reagan seems to get ideas mostly when they are brought to him as problems. That leaves little place for intellectual gurus. Columnist George F. Will, who might have aspired to play such a role, now plays candid friend on the outside. This requires some gymnastic stretches-insisting that he still deplores Reagan's campaign promise to give a woman a Supreme Court seat while approving Reagan's appointment of Sandra O'Connor...
...exclusive photographs that accompany this week's report on the state dinner for Egyptian President Anwar Sadat were equally ingenious. To get a candid picture of President Reagan's toast without creating a distraction, Photographer Dennis Brack placed two cameras inside soundproofed planter boxes that had holes in the sides and then tripped them by infrared beams from across the room. In Brack's case, being in the "wrong" place at the right time was the perfect solution...
...approach the swirling dynamism of a Remington; his technique could not compass the majestic grandeur that Bierstadt gave to the Rockies. Many of his figures were cursorily laid in, and many of his landscapes were studded with stylized hills that suggest haste rather than observation. But his candid style has an impact on the modern viewer that Remington's hyped-up romanticism no longer does. His so-called ineptness of drawing has been re-evaluated in the wake of the incisive simplicities of a Douanier Rousseau or even a John Kane. He relied on a plain clarity...
...autobiography, not recollected in tranquillity but dashed off from life, with all its uncertainties, mixed motives and false starts preserved intact. Wharton, himself an artist and an American expatriate in France, has photographed this story instead of painting it. But, like the best snapshots, Dad is touching, commemorative and candid...
Image presents a candid mosaic of Jewish life in Poland. What emerges from the film's patchwork is a coherent portrait of a flourishing culture. Aspiring writers flock to Warsaw to study under Y.L. Peretz, the dean of Yiddish literature. In the town of Vilna, the Jewish community establishes schools for the mentally retarded and for orphans. In the shtetls, the townfold engage in lively commerce and conform to the letter of well-rooted traditions. The Jews are politically animated. The heirs of the Enlightenment try to balance universal values with continuing Jewish particularism (the "problem" of minority separatism...