Word: daughters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...private life, the professor seemed just as successful. Married in 1950 to Vina Mallowitz, the daughter of a prominent New Orleans physician and herself a dedicated biochemist, Buettner-Janusch and his wife worked together both in the field--studying lemurs in Borneo and Madagascar--and in the laboratory. They enjoyed concerts and theater; one of Buettner-Janusch's common complaints about Duke was its isolated location...
Peasants were not the only subjects ofportraits, however. Ilya Repin, the dominant forcein Russian art in the last quarter of thenineteenth century and perhaps the most gifted ofthe Itinerants, is represented in the exhibitionby his portraits of the composer A. G. Rubinstein,of his daughter Vera Repina, of Council memberSemenov-Tian-Shanskii, and of his close friend LeoTolstoy...
...years ago, Hinckley became enamored of a one-armed fellow inmate, Leslie deVeau, who was committed in 1982 after shooting her ten-year-old daughter to death and attempting suicide. DeVeau has since become an outpatient, and works as a secretary at the hospital. Hinckley told a visiting psychiatrist he hopes one day to be released in her custody -- an ambition the Government offers as a sign that Hinckley is far from recovered...
Again and again, however, the eye goes back to a more sober image, Canyon Country, California, June 1983, one of Sternfeld's infrequent portraits. A man sits before the camera with his arm around a young girl who appears to be his daughter. He looks at the lens. She looks into the distance. Behind them, a suburban street heads out toward a ridge of parched mountains. These are the people in the advance guard of that spreading population, the now-and-future pioneers of perhaps doubtful American prospects. If their implacability looks admirable, Sternfeld has also made...
...formal announcement at Red Rocks, a park 16 miles from downtown Denver, was before his wife and daughter, reporters, cameras and staff. Hart said the Park, begun with federal funds during the Depression, "is a symbol of what a benevolent government...