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...exhibit at the Corcoran Gallery in Washington demonstrates that the images of blacks in American painting and sculpture have been mostly servile and degrading, with a few notable exceptions ranging from John Singleton Copley to Winslow Homer and Thomas Eakins. Bigotry had much to do with it, but so did history and artists' working conditions. The show offers too little aesthetic pleasure but plenty of social significance and maybe a bit too much prosecutorial zeal...
...Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington (on view through March 25). Anyone who visits the exhibition with hopes of high aesthetic pleasure will be disappointed. There are a few paintings in it, and one small sculpture, of real substance and beauty: work by John Singleton Copley, Winslow Homer, Thomas Eakins, Eastman Johnson and William Harnett, and a bronze study of a black soldier's head done for the Shaw Memorial in Boston, his greatest public work of art, by Augustus Saint- Gaudens. And there is a great deal of poor to average American 19th century art -- clumsy, cliche ridden, provincial...
...anyone meant more to his team in the playoffs than "Hot Dog" Henderson to the A's, it was Will ("the Thrill") Clark of the Giants. The 25-year-old first baseman had a grand-slam homer and six runs batted in in the first game, and a bases-loaded single that drove home the winning run in the finale. For the five-game series, he reached base 15 times out of 22, batted .650, scored eight runs and drove in eight, with two homers. "It's no coincidence that at the most important time of the year, Will...
...find Homer to be most perplexing. Could you explain the tension between Achilles and Apollo...
...Cubs will be the Cubs," the Chicago fan sighed. "Leon Durham couldn't get that grounder. Steve Garvey hit that homer. We lost three straight in San Diego. No pennant. No World Series. Nothing...