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...from this week, through Aug. 1, anyone interested in realist painting must go to Philadelphia. American artists who call themselves realists should, if necessary, be dragged there by the collar; the experience waiting for them will be salutary and humbling. The Philadelphia Museum of Art is having a commemorative show of Thomas Eakins. It marks no particular date of his own. Eakins was born in 1844, and he died in 1916. But he passed his whole life, except for four years of European study, in Philadelphia, and his genius-hardly too strong a word, this time-is a proper thing...
...alert: Le Français. The building looks like a suburban developer's vision of a French country inn, and the visitor pauses for a moment to savor the incongruity. Wheeling, Ill. (pop. 23,089), is a beer-and-pretzels kind of town with a sizable blue-collar population. Yet here, 30 miles from downtown Chicago, is one of the best restaurants...
...welfare resources, at the expense of other disadvantaged people" who have no powerful lobby to speak for them. That competition is difficult to mediate, she adds, because "most people now regard Social Security as a guarantee of middle-class income levels. The elderly lobby groups represent a white-collar view of the world...
...startling dimensions. No longer are the bulk of layoffs confined to just autos and housing, which have been in a three-year slump. Unemployment has spread to textiles, pulp and paper, steel, oil drilling and refining, mining and chemicals. Along with union members and the semiskilled, white-collar workers are losing their jobs. Edward Lieberman, 28, was shocked when he could not find work after being laid off from his $20,000-a-year job as a computer-software salesman in Los Angeles. Said he: "I've discovered that I need three years' experience not just a skill...
...good will and flop sweat. I'll say this: he travels in good company. Rachel Ward, his femme fatale in this activity, has taunting cheekbones, eyes like veiled promises and a body that speaks in languages not yet discovered. Miss Ward, just because I have to collar your pal for creative fraud is no reason we can't be friends. My number's in the book. The name is Marlowe. -By Richard Corliss