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...point about patronage is that it is not an extension of rights but a form of social control. The Benevolent Peer did, of course, exist. There were always English aristocrats willing to espouse liberal views, and they are commemorated in this show by Francis Wheatley's genre painting of John Howard, the pioneer of English carceral reform, visiting a prison in 1787. The work once belonged to the reforming, antislavery Tory, Lord Harrowby. But the show and its catalog broadcast together on a narrow band of social meaning, emitting what is basically a fantasy about relationships between taste, property...
Estee Lauder's is a classic American success story: the child of poor immigrants makes good through ingenuity and hard work. But until now that has not been grand enough for this heroine. Lee Israel's unauthorized biography might not exist except for the heavy makeup job Lauder applied to her origins. It is also possible that the lady's own gutsy book would not have seen print without the challenge of Israel's research...
Hussein extracted no promise from Arafat that the P.L.O. would forswear the use of violence against Israel. Nor did the monarch win a formal admission from the organization that it would recognize Israel's right to exist. However, in an interview with TIME Middle East Bureau Chief Dean Fischer after the meeting, Hussein said that he had given Arafat only a limited amount of time to provide that admission. Said the King: "There is no specific period of time, but we expect an answer in the near future . . . I believe that both the Jordanian and Palestinian sides have a clearer...
...Hussein was infuriated by the Achille Lauro hijacking. The King was even more irked by the collapse of an Oct. 14 meeting in London between British Foreign Secretary Sir Geoffrey Howe and two P.L.O. representatives, one of whom scuttled the session by refusing to acknowledge Israel's right to exist...
...think one of the things has been frustrating for Bachrach and Gallagher was that they thought there could be a neat list of what chemicals are toxic, and that does not exist. It's a very complex area that's not going to be easily regulated...