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...Four years ago, Carter Energy Secretary Charles Duncan paid $300,000 for a Georgian-style home in the Palisades section of Washington. Peter McCoy, Nancy Reagan's chief of staff, has just bought it for $450,000. About three blocks away, Agriculture Secretary John Block bought former Deputy Secretary of State Warren Christopher's house, purchased four years...
...still possess a certain magic of political celebrity that transcends ideologies. Jonathan Moore, a moderate Republican who is head of the Institute of Politics at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, believes that the first Democratic reaction to Carter's defeat will be a lament that the Georgian "ran as a Republican," that the party must regain its soul by reasserting itself as the champion of the poor and minorities, that it must turn to Kennedy or Mondale for a comeback...
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...view at London's Tate Gallery is a ceremony of national taste. Organized by Art Historian John Hayes, it traces Gainsborough's career from his beginnings as apprentice painter of homespun Suffolk dignitaries to his apotheosis as the most popular and sought-after portraitist of the Georgian ruling classes. There are more than 150 paintings and drawings, although some of his best-known work-like the Blue Boy, or the exquisite portrait, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Andrews, in the National Gallery, London-has not been included. It is a delightful show, and thoroughly accessible...
Back in 1976, when a fellow Georgian was elected President, the author sensed a sort of redneck renaissance in the making: "The assumption seemed to be, you weren't going to have to do anything except be Southern to reflect the Administration's glory. Persons wearing boots caked with South Georgia slops and pig dung were going to be whooping and rolling and snorting and dancing in the streets of Washington, slaughtering hogs and boiling up big vats of grits out back of the Sans Souci." But as the Carter era wore on, Blount felt betrayed. He would...