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...family stayed in motels, but all were costly, cramped and uncomfortable. Wilson sensed a need for decent accommodations for the growing number of motorists and says that "as soon as I got back to Memphis, I decided to build a motel that had all the things we missed." The draftsman who designed it, Eddie Bluestein, scrawled a title across the bottom of the plans: Holiday Inns. He got the name from an old Bing Crosby movie that he had seen the night before...
...Everything I've ever done has been with just one idea," says Roberta. "Whatever it was, I told myself, 'This is it.' " She took everything slow and steady, step by step. While she was growing up in Arlington, Va., her father worked as a draftsman and her mother as a public school cook who played organ at a local church. By the time she was nine, Roberta was playing for the Sunday school; at age eleven she was sitting in for Mom at the 11 o'clock service. She entered Howard University on a partial music...
...Leaders Hush Scott and Mike Mansfield registered disapproval. Congressional conservatives and liberals alike were in agreement with Yale Law Professor Alexander Bickel's view: "There is no way to fine-tune a constitutional amendment to deal solely with busing. It is beyond the wit of the most articulate draftsman, and it trivializes the Constitution...
Born in Pittsburgh in 1924, Pearlstein gravitated to New York, where he rapidly became involved with the dominant orthodoxy of Abstract Expressionism. But in 1958, after a visit to Italy, he began to realize that he was still at bottom a realist draftsman. "I did not mean to become the kind of naive or modest painter of nice pictures the word realist seems to lead people to expect. I meant to create strong, aggressive paintings that would compete with the best of abstraction...
...second-generation Abstract Expressionist like Pearlstein, Leslie turned to figure painting in the early '60s. His technique as a draftsman is formidable, sharing Pearlstein's plain speech and relentless grip. Your Kindness is an idiosyncratic companion piece to David's famous Death of Marat, with Leslie's wife Constance West dressed as Charlotte Corday and holding the letter that got her access to Marat's bathroom. It is an exhilarating picture, with its firm amplitude of shapes and stripes. Leslie thinks of his work in partly ethical terms. "I think," he reflects, "it was Balzac...