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...stakes for Lloyd's were just as high. In the three centuries since it was founded in Edward Lloyd's Thames-side coffee house, Lloyd's has operated under the watchword "utmost good faith." Were it to be found to have engaged in fraud, even in the semi-distant past, its credibility would be undermined and along with it a premier position in a business where confidence--summed up in the Lloyd's motto Fidentia--is an essential ingredient...
...19th century, and the 20th century inventory is light on landscape and street photography, heavy on fashion and portraiture. But it's a highly credible assortment, brainy and fun, with samples from most of the major episodes of 20th century photography. There's a fair selection of greatest hits--Edward Steichen's 1924 portrait of Gloria Swanson behind a scrim of black lace, Dorothea Lange's inevitable Migrant Mother of 1936--and some less familiar examples by big names. Everybody has seen Edward Weston's nudes, but probably not the one here, from 1927, which turns a pair of legs...
...reason? Successful exploitative entertainment is created by people who are either entirely honest about what they're doing (in the unrepentantly sleazy manner of professional wrestling) or blissfully unaware of how bizarre their creation actually is (the patron saint of this sort of misguided brilliance being the legendary Edward D. Wood Jr.). "Charlie's Angels" had a sterile approach that contrasted sharply with its reputation as the foremost example of "jiggle TV." Having been a teenager during that period, I can assure you that sexier situations cropped up in any random installment of "The Battle of the Network Stars...
...another unsurprising result, incumbent Senator Edward M. Kennedy '54-'56 garnered 85 percent of the vote. Libertarian Party candidate Carla A. Howell narrowly outpolled Republican dark-horse Jack E. Robinson III, 6.94 percent to 6.76 percent...
Maxwell Taylor Kennedy, Edward Kennedy's nephew and campaign manager, served as the master of ceremonies for a parade of speakers that included some of the state's most prominent political leaders, including Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino and Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass...