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...after his death and became a barrier to appraisal of his work. One would prefer to think that Whistler the artist flies free of Whistler the celebrity, the "personality." Not so. On one hand, his pose as a self-constructed man remains as fiercely impressive as Oscar Wilde's. "Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee"--he did that long before Muhammad Ali was born. On the other hand, he was a fine painter but never a great one, though some of his decorative work--conspicuously, the fabulous gold-on-leather Peacock Room in Washington's Freer Gallery--rose...
...float around for a relaxing ride onBoston's famous Swan Boats which inhabit thelandscaped ponds of the French-inspired PublicGarden next to the Englishstyle Common...
...Finn in the first place, which is a not very bright idea thought up by some blurb writer at the publishing house and maybe some reviewers who weren't into original thought, and second, it was a lot easier to be an American archetype back when Huck and Jim floated down the Mississippi because they had a whole big river, which is a ready-made metaphor right there, and all I had was this crummy shopping mall in upstate New York. You can sort of float in a mall, but not too far, just around in the same old circle...
...advance press for the new book by Russell Banks (HarperCollins; 390 pages; $22) tries hard to pass the novel off as the story of a Huck Finn-esque mall rat in upstate New York. Unfortunately, it was a lot easier to be an American archetype when Huck and Jim floated down the Mississippi, a ready-made metaphor. It's a much more difficult, and much less interesting, trick for Bone, the 14 year old narrator of this book, who's stuck not with a river but a mere shopping mall, a place whereTIME book critic John Skowsays "you can sort...
...Richard Schoenstadt, 44, a surveyor's assistant who bought 54 riverfront acres, intending to subdivide. The apa insisted on an exhaustive biological inventory. Then, says Schoenstadt, who between fighting and complying lost the property and his $50,000 savings, the agency wanted assurance that his picnic tables would not float away during floods...