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...arts in America did not bring forth anything much new at first, except for mid- to late-18th century furniture--and one work by Benjamin West. When he was 12, West (1738-1820) announced that his talent would make him the "companion of kings and emperors." And as a matter of fact, it did: after he settled in England in 1763, he became George III's favorite artist. His definitive work was The Death of General Wolfe, 1770. It was a history painting but recent history, recounting a British victory over the French at the Battle of Quebec only...
...professional astronomer, former astronaut and new-paradigm scientist, I was a guest on Art Bell's radio talk show [NATION, April 14] on Feb. 16. To Bell's credit, I had the opportunity to make very clear that I saw absolutely no scientific evidence for any spaceship companion to the Hale-Bopp comet. But I also cited positive evidence for the presence of extraterrestrial intelligence through the UFO phenomenon. It is easy to use the Heaven's Gate tragedy to debunk the entire range of phenomena associated with possible visitations, ignoring government cover-ups of reverse engineering and of radical...
...their books, ticking off family and friends as the years go by, for Erdrich and Dorris, it seemed, there was only one Muse--the other. "To Michael, Complice in every word, essential as air," Erdrich wrote at the front of her best-selling The Beet Queen. "For Louise, Companion through every page, through every day. Compeer," read the dedication in Dorris' A Yellow Raft in Blue Water. In 1991 they even collaborated on a novel, Crown of Columbus. That book, too, became a best seller. "They were like a twin star system," says a friend, author Martin Cruz Smith...
...Democrats scrambling to pay the bills (see above: Al Gore, problems of). But just as Morris emerged on the cover of TIME and the President headed for his acceptance speech at the Democratic Convention, the supermarket tabloid Star pushed the plunger on the dynamite Morris rested upon. A paid companion told just how she had companioned Morris in his Washington hotel suite and played footsie with his face. Later it came to light that he had fathered a daughter by a woman in Texas, news that did nothing to smooth relations with his (now estranged) wife. Morris consoled himself with...
...bombshell. Notorious in her student days for vilifying "sodomites" in the Dartmouth Review--and for sending a reporter to tape a Gay Students Association meeting, then naming names--she wrote that she changed her views after witnessing "the dignity, fidelity and courage" with which her brother and his late companion coped with AIDS. She now understands why gays need protection and regrets her "callous rhetoric...