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When the klieg lights of the summit have faded and the lambent glow of history takes over, Bush's response to the controversy set off by the Wellesley seniors may be what is remembered. While the First Lady's official cause is literacy, her unofficial mission is to convince a new generation of women that there is honor and a deep, sustaining pleasure in motherhood, that a life-style is no substitute for a life. "At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, ((not)) winning one more verdict, or not closing...
...dinner meeting of America's board of directors, heavily from the midland where they grow things and make things. Now that the Gorbachev glow has faded and the glitz is gone, George Bush and his crew have the tougher job of helping the Soviet Union gear up for the open world and the marketplace...
...answers to those questions glow through every glass panel and glisten from every opalescent surface in "Masterworks of Louis Comfort Tiffany," an exhibition on view through Sept. 9 at New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art. Tiffany expert and curator Alastair Duncan has assembled 72 rarely seen works for this spaciously mounted show: monumental stained-glass windows, richly patterned leaded-glass lamps, delicate hand-blown vases and impressionistic gold jewelry...
...leaded-glass lamps displayed in "Masterworks" radiate a ragtime glow -- magnolias, maple leaves, dragonflies and cobwebs are set atop finely wrought bronze bases. Viewed together, however, they overwhelm a modern eye, a sort of kaleidoscopic overdose. Tiffany would perhaps have been embarrassed by such a showing of his lamps. He considered them rankly commercial and beneath his talents. They were, however, a convenient way to use up the several tons of glass chips and shards remaining from his monumental windows. At his 68th birthday party, where more than 160 examples of his art were displayed, Tiffany exhibited only one lamp...
...They look like primitive lumps, soft rocks. Why paint a lump? Partly, no doubt, because the grainstacks implied abundance, the nurturing power of deep France. But mainly because, in their very simplicity, they were a superb matrix for the changing effects of light and color. Sometimes Monet's grainstacks glow like furnaces, their shadow lines breaking into excited flurries of crimson and blue; sometimes they are dirty brown, between the inert pewter sky of winter and the white crust of snow...