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...taste in his day -- and then got flattened from behind by the avant-garde as it developed after the 1913 Armory Show, which he had helped organize: roadkill, as it were, on art history's Route 66. He didn't quite have the empirical genius of the older Winslow Homer, to whom his early work strongly relates; nor did he quite possess the visionary force of Marsden Hartley, with whom he shared a love of romantic, elemental images -- sea, rock, the buffeting air of Maine...
...Topps decided to shake things up a bit and supplement the gum with--you guessed it--pictures of baseball players on 2" by 3" cards. This wasn't a new idea--cigarette manufacturers included cards with their smokes in the 1900s--but Topps slugged a homer with its new combination...
...Simpsons too, despite its "eat my shorts" irreverence, presents a cohesive family that could almost be a role model, even if its constituent parts are not. Homer may be an incompetent father and breadwinner (stuck home alone to take care of baby Maggie, he manages to lose the kid), but his heart is in the right place (he feels terrible about it). When Homer loses his job at the nuclear power plant, Marge tells the kids they will have to pitch in to help save money. Bart volunteers to skip baths and read his comic books in the store rather...
...human face. The best of Harnett is, so to speak, the weak populist end of the best strain in 19th century American art: its adherence to pragmatic, empirical vision, to art as an instrument of the world's measurement. (The great figures in this are Audubon, Eakins and Homer...
...Leverett junior certainly did his part, slamming a low curveball over the fence in the third inning to drive in three runs. The homer gave Harvard a 6-1 lead, which it would happily pad in the fourth, fifth and seventh innings...