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Says Sherri Finkbine: "It would be the crudest thing in the world to let my baby be born with only a 50-50 chance of being normal...
...written a Lincoln biography, wrote to Sedgwick: "You have an amazing set of true Lincoln documents?the most extraordinary that have come to us in many, many years." After publication of the Atlantic's first installment, however, a storm of criticism erupted. "You are putting over one of the crudest forgeries I have known," protested Worthington Chauncey Ford, 72, editor of the Massachusetts Historical Society, in a letter to Sedgwick. Even Barton sadly wrote to Minor, "I have come to the conviction that the letters which you are sending to the Atlantic are not genuine. And, my dear...
...migrés. East Germany is said to excel in electronic surveillance and detection equipment. Before martial law was imposed, Poland offered the best approach to influencing opinion in the West. In the U.S. alone, Poland reportedly can call on agents among some 200 trade representatives. Rumania has the crudest and largest secret police; some experts estimate that as many as one-third of all adults have served in the security service or cooperated with it. Bulgaria's secret police is especially valued for its loyalty. Explains an East European expert in London: "In Soviet eyes, the Bulgarian security service does...
...Bourgeois's imagination has a nasty side, as real acts of exorcism must. The fantasies her art expels into the chaste gallery space have as much to do with incest and cannibalism as with the more usual aesthetic satisfactions of MOMA. The most vivid of them, and the crudest, is a sort of grotto full of pendulous brown stalactites, lumpy and breastlike...
...entry in the 1954 Phillips Academy yearbook did not inspire confidence. No college destination, no extracurricular activities and no nickname (the crudest of blows at a Northeastern prep school). In fact his sole distinction as a senior was being voted "most cynical." Still lacking a nickname, Contemporary Artist Frank Stella, 46, returned to the school at Andover, Mass., where he first got a taste for art. The occasion was the opening of an exhibition of his and other artists' work at the Addison Gallery of American Art, the only full-scale museum in the country run by a secondary...