Word: harper
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Most of the people who stop at Carroll Harper's place are tourists from up North or from over on the other side of the Blue Ridge, in the District of Columbia's westward-creeping suburbs. But the two men standing out front next to a pickup truck, wearing overalls and visored caps, are obviously locals. "My brother got me a statue here last week. He thought I'd like it," says one, the soft twang of his western Virginia accent confirming the visual evidence. "I don't. Can I trade it in on something else?" Harper, a stocky...
Another probe was quietly closed last week without charges being filed. James Harper, a seasoned tax litigator, had been looking into the finances of ) former Assistant Attorney General W. Lawrence Wallace...
...designed his first dress when he was a little old man of five, and his mother wore it to a St. Petersburg ball. Mata Hari was a client, as were the Ziegfeld Follies, MGM, various opera companies and magazines as disparate as Harper's Bazaar and Playboy. Now a little old man of 95, Erte still astonishes, as is vividly demonstrated by the delicious retrospective Erte at Ninety-Five: The Complete New Graphics (Dutton; 192 pages; $75). His work is generally labeled art deco, but his wit, imagination and irrepressible flamboyance suggest a more fitting appellation: art Erte...
...knows well. Despite comfortable stereotypes, the victims are hardly limited to uneducated or disadvantaged women. Many are from society's upper echelons. At least 10% of professional men beat their wives. One well-to-do victim: Charlotte Fedders, author of the recently published Shattered Dreams (Harper & Row; $17.95). Her book is a harrowing account of her 17-year marriage to John Fedders, a former Securities and Exchange Commission official...
Mordicai Gerstein is even more exotic in The Mountains of Tibet (Harper & Row; $11.95). A woodcutter plans to travel the world, but he finds that he has grown old without ever leaving home. Yet when he dies, no tragedy attends his passing. A voice informs his spirit, "You may become part of the endless universe some call heaven, or you may live another life." He makes a delightful choice. Reincarnation would not seem a promising basis for a children's book, but Gerstein's fluid text and swirling, imaginative paintings are filled with light and reassurance. This is a work...