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Actually, no, forget that. Anne Wilkes Tucker, curator of photography at the Houston Museum of Fine Arts, is nothing like a giant black slab. She's gracious, enthusiastic and cultivated. No slab in our experience has anything like her laugh, which is the musical kind you might expect from a woman born in Baton Rouge, La., one whose taste is stately enough to embrace the 19th century Japanese camera portrait but frisky enough to approve paparazzi shots from the Rome of La Dolce Vita. All the same, she's forceful when she needs to be and cunning when the occasion...
...Welty shopped almost daily at the old Jitney-Jungle grocery story only a few blocks from her home. Fans too timid to knock on her front door often went to the store and waited for her to appear. But Welty was always gracious to her adoring fans, particularly young writers. As her health declined, her doctors ordered her to post a sign at the entrance of her home forbidding visitors without an appointment. But Welty, always the gracious southern lady, thought the message was too curt. Beneath the warning, in a spiderly script, she had scrawled a penciled note...
...Producers juggernaut, Broderick says, "Well, we can't win all of them"--pause--"because we're up against ourselves for a few of them." Broderick and Lane will compete for Best Actor in a Musical ("I'm pretty sure he'll win," says Broderick) and try to be gracious. "Hopefully we'll be amusing and not have people throw vegetables...
Your first paragraph goes on to say that you respect my decision not to make a donation (thanks!) but wish to restate the merits of the senior gift. Okay, you're warming up. I'm willing to listen. You even make the gracious gesture of offering me "a second opportunity to make a pledge of $10.00 before Commencement." It's nice that you're giving me another opportunity to take my money-I thought the window had closed. Phew...
they did was wrong,” says Ellen Schrecker `60 a historian of McCarthyism at Yeshiva University. “I’m surprised that Harvard couldn’t have been a little more gracious...