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...After 18 months and four operations to reconstruct his cheek and jaw, he went to Stanford Law, where he graduated first in his class. A Democrat until he changed parties in 1985, he served in the Florida legislature for nearly eight years. His conservative views impressed former Attorney General Edwin Meese, who appointed him to his present post...
...embrace a policy of safety and prevention. Says Albert Appleton, New York City's new commissioner of environmental protection: "Exxon has a corporate philosophy that the environment is some kind of nuisance problem and a distraction from the real business of moving oil around." Last week Exxon named Edwin Hess, a senior vice president, to the new post of vice president in charge of environment and safety. Never before has the company assigned those issues to such a high-ranking executive...
...imagery of nature as spectacle, the romantic sublime, has never gone out of style in America, though it migrated to the movies in the 20th century. In the 19th, however, it was still firmly ensconced in painting, and at its zenith -- the 1850s and 1860s -- its star was Frederic Edwin Church, whose admirers compared him (for various reasons) with Lord Byron, Balboa and J.M.W. Turner. When Church showed a single landscape, Americans would turn out to see it in the kind of droves that require the pull of a whole retrospective today. In 1859 he made $3,000 in three...
...Washington's National Gallery, the first full-dress exhibition in 25 years of Frederic Edwin Church's huge landscapes offers nature as sublime spectacle...
Senior Correspondents: Kenneth W. Banta, Mary Cronin, Hays Gorey, Lee Griggs, William McWhirter, J. Madeleine Nash, Edwin M. Reingold, Alessandra Stanley, Frederick Ungeheuer, Bruce van Voorst, James Wilde...