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...Copley's work as the origin of one of the main lines of American painting: that empirical realism that, disdaining frills of style and "spiritual" grace notes, tried in all its sharpness (and, occasionally, bluntness) to engage the material world as an end in itself. Later figures in this line would be John James Audubon and Thomas Eakins. But Copley was the first. He took the linear, enumerative style of early American effigy painting and made it peculiarly grand--not through rhetoric, as in the "grand manner," but through the candor of its curiosity. He did not edit...
...girl, she was embarrassed by her height. And while her friends surfed, fair-skinned Nicole fretted about freckling. Drama was the solution. "It was natural for me," she says, "to want to disappear into a dark theater." Soon she had the poise that would bloom into a regal grace under pressure in Dead Calm, Days of Thunder (where she met Cruise) and Billy Bathgate, as Dutch Schultz's posh girlfriend--her sharpest movie role before...
...complex liability case into a suspenseful narrative full of intellectual surprises and bold-faced characters. Based on Harr's fly-on-the-wall reporting, A Civil Action (Random House; 500 pages; $25) chronicles a lawsuit brought in 1986 by eight families in Woburn, Massachusetts, against Beatrice Foods and W.R. Grace. The plaintiffs charged that toxic waste on properties owned by the giant corporations had infiltrated town drinking water and caused an outbreak of leukemia...
Which they couldn't. Eventually the judge let Beatrice off the hook--though post-trial reports from the federal Environmental Protection Agency supported the plaintiffs' claim against the food giant. Schlichtmann then settled with Grace for $8 million, not enough to cover his firm's bankrupting debts or get back his repossessed Porsche...
...everyone is a victim, and no one is responsible. Police work, just like every other profession, has its share of questionable people. Where money, power and greed are prevalent, cops, attorneys, bankers, politicians and others will be tempted by the easy way out. When these people fall from grace, society must demand penalties suited to the crimes. Moreover, it is the administrator's responsibility to remove flawed people from the ranks before they have an opportunity to misuse their position. ROBERT A. BELLAMY Sheriff, Dundy County Benkelman, Nebraska...