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...solemn disposition. She dates, though not a lot. She enjoys a laugh, though she doesn't tell the jokes. The youngest of 13 children in a devout Baptist family, she grew up near Morris, Okla., a small town (pop. 1,200) where her father raised cattle and farmed cotton, soybeans and peanuts on 240 acres. She remains close to her family, most of whom flew to Washington last week to support her. For her father, now 79, it was the first trip on an airplane...
HOMECOMING: WILLIAM H. JOHNSON AND AFRO-AMERICA, 1938-1946. National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington. These 80 paintings showcase one of America's most important but neglected painters. His works portray black experience, from the cotton patches to dance halls to city streets, in a primitive, folk-inspired style. Through March 1. A splendidly illustrated companion book, Homecoming: The Art and Life of William H. Johnson (Rizzoli; $45), provides a comprehensive look at his life and work...
...upmarket game. This season, boutiques are full of dressy clothes in bright colors -- limes and lemons, oranges and magentas. Nothing new there. But wait -- the surprise element is that the costumes are made of that old standby of working clothes and off-duty wear, denim. A humble cotton twill, typically a weave of indigo and white, it has always meant durability and comfort. Now it also means class...
Ominously recalling Iran in the months before the Ayatullah Khomeini's revolution, thousands of Muslim worshipers manifest their desire for an Islamic republic by walking to the Kouba mosque each Friday morning. The men flaunt their allegiance by wearing long cotton kamis and beards -- reputedly the dress of the Prophet Muhammad. The sheik whom they come to hear speaks of martyrdom and sedition...
...narrative. And he is as sadly witty about individuals as about their troubled nation. Here is Kramer in The Song Dog, surveying the wares at a rundown country store: "On the crowded shelf of cigarettes and pipe tobacco, he saw, for the first time in years, the little cotton bags of shag his father had smoked to excess, so crude it came complete with tobacco stalks. Good stuff, that shag: it had given the old bastard the long, lingering, thoroughly horrible death he'd deserved." Nothing more is said about that father-son relationship -- and nothing is needed. That...