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...banker, John Marlan Poindexter grew up in Odon, Ind. (pop. 1,400), described by Richard Poindexter as a "very conservative, Bible-belt community." A thin, shy and bookish child, Poindexter was an exemplary student who won appointment to the U.S. Naval Academy from the late Republican Senator Homer Capehart. Poindexter's mother Ellen recalls that the Senator once sat in the family's living room on a Sunday afternoon and told John that "he hadn't had very good luck with boys from Daviess County." That statement, she believes, was "part of the reason why John wanted...
...show is a record of 15 years of work with one model at a depth of detail that would be utterly fascinating with a greater artist -- a Manet, a Degas or even a Winslow Homer -- but that at Wyeth's level of achievement seems almost tiresome. The bulk of the show is pencil sketches and watercolors, grouped around a dozen or so finished images in drybrush and tempera. To study an artist's sketches is to go behind the scenes of his talent, to see how the mechanisms of his pictorial thought work; one sees each twist in the evolution...
...matters, but expertise. Herron admits to "being a classicist" and adds, "I don't like prolonged periods of working with texts that are apt to bring up what is emotional in myself." Authors such as Alice Walker tend to tie themselves up with intense emotion where classic writers like Homer lend themselves to a more intellectual reading of the text, she says...
Henderson led off the first with an opposite field homer to right off Ed Correa (1-4). It was his eighth homer of the season, the fourth leading off a game...
Renninger's second homer of the year gave the visiting Crimson an 8-4 lead over the Jumbos...