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...this line would be John James Audubon and Thomas Eakins. But Copley was the first. He took the linear, enumerative style of early American effigy painting and made it peculiarly grand--not through rhetoric, as in the "grand manner," but through the candor of its curiosity. He did not edit out the warts and wens, the pinched New England lips, the sallow skin and (as several portraits show) the pockmarks that were the common disfigurement of an age before vaccination. Eighteenth century America did not have today's obsession with the cosmetic...
...whose staff he served at the Paris peace talks. Says U.S. Ambassador to India Frank Wisner, who worked with Holbrooke in Vietnam: "Dick has a passion for prominent people and an uncanny knack for figuring out their agendas." To get broader experience, Holbrooke left the Foreign Service to edit Foreign Policy magazine before rejoining the State Department as Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs in the Carter Administration. Moving to New York City after Ronald Reagan's 1980 election, he embellished his Establishment credentials by joining Lehman Brothers, dating TV journalist Diane Sawyer, collaborating with Clark...
Devotees of Tennessee Williams take note: the playwright's published oeuvre is about to increase by several thousand pages. Using the reserves of the Harvard Theater Collection, two scholars plan to edit a compilation of Williams' personal letters which will appear in the year...
Nancy Tischler, a professor of English at Pennsylvania State University, and Albert Devlin, a professor of English at the University of Missouri at Columbia, will establish and edit a chronological collection of Williams' letters. The book will be published by New Directions, the company which also published most of Williams' plays...
...Video Music Awards at Radio City Music Hall, painting the nails on one hand five different colors and signing a poster for Cal Ripken Jr. ("What wonderful blue eyes," she said of her sports co-star last week.) Seles even took the time to comfort Hungarian junior player Edit Pakay, 15, who was crying in the locker room after her defeat...