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He left his imprint on history in 1969 when he became the fourth man to set foot on the moon, and now former Astronaut Alan Bean, 52, is painting almost obsessively in an effort to capture the lunar landscape on canvas. In Houston this month Bean will launch his second...
Inside the Civic Center people are taking their places, even though wrestling won't begin until 2 o'clock. Loretta Lynn's soft voice drifts from loudspeakers embedded in the ceiling above a concrete floor set with row after row of red plastic chairs. In the middle...
Back in the dressing room, wrestlers are having a smoke and taping their limbs in preparation for bouts to come. Some smear on baby oil to avoid abrasion from the ropes and canvas ring. "Bruiser" Frank Brody, mid-30s, preparing to wrestle, unclasps his black hair from a ponytail, douses...
His family, once rich in land, has recklessly lost all their wealth and I rank's ambition is to regain it--first physically, by selling his paintings and second spiritually, by recapturing on canvas the images of the lost land. In attempting to fulfill his ambition, however, he believes he...
By the end of the book Frank's second sense of regaining his family's lost estate (the recapturing of it on canvas) is the most important and lasting achievement, yet one feels no sense of triumph or joy. The book's title does not refer to actual land, but...