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...magazine noted that the White House was looking for Western art to give the Reagans a whiff of home while they reside back East; that brought a deluge of contemporary works, most of them bad. They have been stored away in a closet. What the President had in mind was great paintings of an earlier West, scenes by the likes of Albert Bierstadt, Thomas Moran and Charles Russell. Reagan wants the Western feel with class. Curiously, Reagan balances this new formality with his own habit of doing things himself. The sight of Lyndon Johnson sticking out his hand...
...abstract or figurative, that is entirely hedonistic, anxiety-free and without social resonance is not, of course, new in America. That was what most abstract painting in the '60s was about, although the fact was concealed as embarrassing. Now the impulse is out of the closet, which is a relief-although it seems not to have produced any genuinely major painting. The best of the peintre-décorateurs, and the longest at it, is Robert Zakanitch, 45 represented at the Whitney with a lavish and seductive canvas of two swans, heraldically conjoined at the heads, floating...
According to officials, there were three other fires at the Hilton in addition to the one that Cline admits having started. After the main fire was under control, others broke out in quick succession in a second-floor linen closet, a third-floor service elevator lobby and in a ninth-floor fire hose, which had been cut open, stuffed with paper and ignited. Cline has been charged with setting only the eighth-floor fire but is being quizzed about the others...
Gays are oppressed. The early life of every gay is filled with taunts of "fag" and "queer." These teach him to hate what he is. They make admission of his homosexuality to himself a crushing blow. The gay with enough courage to step out of his closet is also oppressed. He is ostracized by many of his friends, often completely rejected by his friends, often completely rejected by his family, regarded as misguided or demented by the rest of society, harassed, ridiculed, and sometimes even physically attacked. Even if a gay is accepted by his family and friends, he still...
...author writes in his book that the leadership of the New Right first congealed in 1974 when President Ford nominated closet liberal Nelson Rockefeller for vice president. Viguerie and his fellow conservatives were disgusted that other Republicans "had no stomach for a hard-nosed fight" and had decided passively "to put party before principle" in allowing the appointment. Though they realized nothing could stop Nelson from becoming vice president, Viguerie resolved to give up "time I was spending with my family, on golf, vacation, etc...and start doing some leading...