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...four-year stint as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, the blunt-spoken Kirkpatrick has become a star on the lecture circuit, a hero within her newly adopted Republican Party and probably the most talked-about, albeit undeclared, electoral newcomer on the political scene. Though Kirkpatrick finds the glare of personal celebrity "very unexpected," she is passing up few opportunities to make the most of it. "I get a lift from speaking out," she says. "And there is just a dazzling array of opportunity...
...though the conditions that produce great art -- patience, internalization, ruthless self-criticism and an engagement with the authoritative past that goes deeper than the mere ransacking of one's culture for quotable motifs -- have been bleached out of current painting by the glare of its own success. And this success depends as much on the eager passivity of consumers as on the opportunism to which America, besotted with cultural therapy, consigns its talents. No culture needs a hegemony to produce its quota of strong artists; such people do continue to emerge in the U.S. But there is no doubt that...
Fischl country is a place of shag carpets lit by the desolate glare of TV sets, of king-size beds seen as altars of suburban promiscuity, and blue swimming pools that slyly parody David Hockney's less tainted vision of a Californian Eden. It smells of unwashed dog, Bar-B-Q lighter fluid and sperm. It is permeated with voyeurism and resentful, secretive tumescence -- a theater of adolescent tension and adult anonymity. Fischl paints this world of failed intimacies with conviction and narrative grip: at best, his drawing is beautifully concise (though marred, at present, by too many botched...
When the retrial of Claus von Bulow on charges that he twice tried to murder his wife with insulin injections began in Providence last week, the media glare was even more relentless than last time. The Danish aristocrat's wife Martha (nicknamed "Sunny," for her disposition) von Auersperg von Bulow, heiress to a Pittsburgh fortune estimated at $35 million, went into an irreversible coma at Christmastime 1980 at the couple's oceanfront Newport home. An impassive Von Bulow was convicted in 1982 on two counts of attempted murder and sentenced to 30 years in prison. But last April, after...
...public role in the divestiture debate. There is no doubt that the president has forthrightly and repeatedly made public the grounds of his opposition to divestiture-mostly through the issuance of several open letters on the subject-but he has yet really to defend his position in the glare of public attention...