Word: essays
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...interests were always arty. During her senior year in college she won Vogue's Prix de Paris, a contest that awarded the winner a year in Paris and an internship with the magazine. Her essay was on the great Russian ballet impresario Serge Diaghilev, among others. Diaghilev was a shrewd, sophisticated choice, bound to knock the glossy's one-upping editors back on their heels. Says a Jackie watcher of impeccable credentials: "You could talk with her about Baudelaire, but not about Cromwell...
Whether all this is good governance is beyond the purview of this essay -- and probably this electorate. The only real question is (you ask it, we ask it, the White House asks it): Will the ratings hold...
...didn't use to think of politics in quite these terms -- Eisenhower, surely, would not have appreciated being bound up in a flip essay with Aromavision (Clinton probably doesn't either, but one imagines he's grown used to this sort of thing). Thirty-odd years of expecting Presidents to be adept television performers and 30-odd years of Presidents' playing to that expectation -- the catch in Reagan's voice, the tug on Clinton's lip -- have chipped away at our notions of intimacy, dignity and content, leaving behind a fat appetite for sheer spectacle. Not always by design...
...never write De Kooning off. He came back in the late '70s with some big, rapturously congested landscape-body images with a deeper tonal structure that, though they do not support the comparisons to late Monet, Renoir, Bonnard "and, of course, Titian" that David Sylvester makes in his catalog essay, certainly confirm that the movement of De Kooning's talent was not on-off, but ebb and flow...
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