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However, "Casey at the Bat" does not owe its popularity just to the quality of its writing. De Wolf Hopper, a well-known musical comedian of the early twentieth century, was given the newspaper clipping of "Casey" to recite for one of his acts...
...recitation was such a success that Hopper made "Casey" the trademark of his famous act. Hooper wrote later in his life that he had recited "Casey" more than 10,000 times...
Although he is a representational painter (he cites Edward Hopper as an influence), Howe's work is not photographic. A more expressionistic canvas, "Attic Apartment" shows a tall figure standing in a small room defined by sharply slanted ceilings. Howe refers to Edvard Munch as an influence for this more psychological piece...
...this New Year's Day bowl-speak, throw my name into the pro-playoff hopper. For the life of me I can't understand why Notre Dame gets only one of 62 first-place votes in the AP Poll even as Florida State (identical 10-1 record, head-to-head loss) gets over two-thirds of them...
Aspects of the work of older American artists recur in Porter's work: Marsden Hartley's love of bony mass, Edward Hopper's treatment of light. But there were very great differences. Porter was a more nuanced and daring colorist than Hartley; his world is more lyric than Hopper's, and on the whole untouched by melancholy. It is also more generalized in treatment. In a large painting like Island Farmhouse, 1969, the white weatherboard asserts itself in a blast of light like a Doric temple; the lines of shadow are a burning visionary yellow; everything, from the angular...