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...expect her to pop out like a cuckoo on a clock, but there isn't even a painting of her on view -- only her ancestors. The burden falls on Queen Victoria, whose portrait en famille by Franz Xaver Winterhalter (who was to her and Prince Albert what Edwin Landseer was to their many dogs) must be the single most sentimental piece of kitsch in the palace and accordingly gets more attention from the visitor stream than any Rubens or Rembrandt. Now and again some palace functionary, neatly tailored and with a face like a silver teapot, glides through the crowd...
...playing the white girlfriend of black boxer Jack Johnson in The Great White Hope. It opened in 1967 in a Washington production financed by the NEA and went on to Broadway and the movies. Alexander has often worked at NEA-funded institutions since then, as has her husband, director Edwin Sherin...
...scandals -- ranging from clandestine liaisons with adult parishioners to clerical pedophilia -- have focused fresh attention on the life of the Catholic priest and turned him into a suspect figure in many eyes. Says Monsignor Edwin O'Brien, rector of the North American Pontifical College in Rome: "A priest would have to be out of his mind now to touch a kid, even if it's just to pat him on the head or tap him on the shoulder." The scandals are forcing the American clergy -- and, ever so reluctantly, the Vatican -- to examine the nature and tradition of the priesthood...
Rubin will teach three courses next year, according to Professor of Japanese Literature Edwin A. Cranston: one on the development of Japanese literature, one on the reading of literary texts; and one on noh drams, a 14th and 15th century genre...
Pennypacker proctor Edwin G. Abel III said he noticed less tension than in past lotteries, adding that he senses anticipation but not apprehension...