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...artist in the world. But it enabled him to play with all manner of saucy ironies and In jokes, and in any case he never copied anything; each image underwent fastidious tweaking, reshaping and restyling. "Why, Brad darling, this painting is a masterpiece!" a blond woman exclaims to a clean-cut young painter in Masterpiece, 1962. "My, soon you'll have all of New York clamoring for your work!" Neither she nor Lichtenstein, at the time, knew how right...
...remains unique, the land in which it was born has come to accept--no, to lionize--its adherents as paragons of the national spirit. It was in the 1950s, says historian Jan Shipps, that the Mormons went from being "vilified" to being "venerated," and their combination of family orientation, clean-cut optimism, honesty and pleasant aggressiveness seems increasingly in demand. Fifteen Mormon Senators and Representatives currently trek the halls of Congress. Mormon author and consultant Stephen R. Covey bottled parts of the ethos in The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, which has been on best-seller lists for five...
Standing beside a clean-cut young couple dressed rather formally for the summer weather, I looked out over Adam's home, a broad green valley that is currently planted in corn. Smith planned a town here that never took hold, just one among several Mormon promised lands, from Kirtland, Ohio, to Independence, Mo., that he and his flock were violently driven from. The public did not like Mormons in those days (segments of it still don't) and charged them with a host of crimes ranging from fraternizing with native "savages" to advocating the abolition of slavery. Smith's early...
...www.fbi.gov/ See if you're on the most-wanted list. Clean-cut and strict. Site cautions that its name, initials and seal are "restricted" and may be used "only with written permission...
...Tommy's House of Pizza, a noseringed employee introduces me to Mike McHale, the famed Celtic's fourth cousin and a clean-cut young Boston University graduate from New York who has been the store's majority owner since it changed hands almost three years ago. We get to chatting above the alternative music and it comes out that he, like Dicensio, has no stories of destruction or mayhem to share. In fact, "we've never had a fight," McHale reports. "We've had plenty of drunks, plenty of times the place has been packed, but the cool thing about...