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...stripped of all our possessions, out in the cold, down to our last charge plate (not one from Saks), and standing last in a breadline that accepts only cash. But let a Silver Shadow come humming along, and our hollow faces will suddenly be laved in an involuntary beatific glow, like the Ancient Mariner just before the bird dropped...
...museums of Europe, East and West, they glow from the wall with an unmistakable vividness: altarpieces, portraits of princes and burghers and ethereal nudes. They are the works of the Cranach family, principally Lucas the Elder and Lucas the Younger, whose genius reflects the richness and turbulence of the 16th century. In Cranach: A Family of Master Painters (Putnam; 476 pages; $50), Art Historian Werner Schade shows how and why their likenesses of Luther and other leading reformers remain the prevailing images today. Much of their work was designed to glorify the new money as well as the new faith...
Only thing with a radioactive glow...
...part, the market's glow reflects a conviction in the business community that happy times will return with the incoming Administration. Says Felix Rohatyn, a partner in the influential Lazard Freres investment-banking firm: "Reagan is a businessman's populist. Under the Carter Administration, they considered themselves the whipping boys, overregulated and over-Naderized. Now they all see a better climate coming...
...root of this particular scandal--instructs the committee of M.P.s investigating the charges that "the people" care about how they perform their public jobs, not how they conduct their personal lives. A sigh and a smile sweeps through the audience; they, too, can share in the self-righteous glow of this conclusion, and only the press need feel guilty--no mention of the sad truth that "the people" themselves buy the newspapers that sensationalize sex-in-politics...