Word: edward
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...P.L.O. has never before been under such pressure to seize the initiative. Hussein's decision and the growing impatience of leaders of the eight-month-old uprising in the West Bank and Gaza Strip to transform their revolt into political gains may finally force Arafat to compromise. Says Edward Said, a prominent Palestinian American who is a professor at Columbia University: "The P.L.O. realizes that this is a historical opportunity that should not be muffed...
EXECUTIVE EDITORS: Edward L. Jamieson, Ronald Kriss...
Mapplethorpe's imagery comes trailing a long pedigree, from the Yellow Book decadence of Aubrey Beardsley to Edward Weston's peppers, from Cocteau's classical echoes and erotomania to the chiseled male nudes shot by George Platt Lynes in the '30s and '40s. It also indulges a fascination with style and surface that is very much of the present. Mapplethorpe trafficked expertly in the prevailing moods of the '70s and early '80s, the appetite for both glamour and decadence, high fashion and subterranean sex. That has caused him to be dismissed at times as a vendor of deluxe fantasy...
When he introduced himself to the Republican National Convention Wednesday as the guy that's going to beat Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54, the Superdome erupted. Nothing would make Republican happier than to send Teddy Kennedy back to Hyannisport...
Bork also criticized Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.). "The whole episode did not change my opinion of Senator Kennedy," Bork said. "My opinion of him is probably not flattering on most scales...