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...look closer, be yours. Fischl is a true American realist, but he works at a pitch of psychological truth ! (especially about adolescent sexuality) not known in the American narrative art of his forebears in the '30s. At his best he seems, roughly, a cross between Edward Hopper and the Philip Roth of Portnoy's Complaint. Thus it seems just right that Roth has written a catalog introduction to Fischl's current show in Manhattan, six paintings on view at the Mary Boone Gallery through June...
...gang wars have now become material for Hollywood entertainment. Dennis Hopper's Colors, an already controversial film about Los Angeles cops battling dope-dealing thugs, premieres this week. But no movie could convey the tragic impact of gang brutality on the lives of ghetto families. Consider the case of Peggy Graham, the mother of Stacey Childress. Last November another son, Ermond Easley Jr., 16, was fatally shot in the head and chest while standing a few blocks from the Coliseum. In February, Graham's 19-year-old brother Walter Dirks was murdered by two men who were trying to steal...
Bloom was in fact a shrewd art investor. He bought paintings by Edward Hopper, John Singer Sargent, Mary Cassatt and Willem de Kooning. Among the most expensive: Thomas Wilmer Dewing's Lady in White (worth $750,000) and John White Alexander's Alethea ($660,000). Says Loraine Pack-Liebmann, a Manhattan art dealer: "The kid did well. Many of the works he has bought have appreciated substantially in value." Example: Severin Roesen's Vase of Flowers in Footed Glass Bowl with Bird's Nest, purchased for $175,000, may now be worth $250,000, a potential profit...
...Heidi K. Hopper '91 disagreed with Taylor and said that although she didn't like the idea of printing negative mottoes on T-shirts and sweatshirts, she didn't mind mild positive statements like "Harvard's better than Yale" or "Beat Yale...
...recognized as the World Heavyweight Boxing champion by all three of the sport's ruling bodies: the World Boxing Association, the World Boxing Council and the International Boxing Federation. So to mark the occasion, Promoter King decided to mount a "throneization" at the Las Vegas Hilton. With Actor Dennis Hopper, Comic Eddie Murphy and former King of Boxing Muhammad Ali in attendance, King presented Tyson with a blue chinchilla robe, a jeweled necklace and a scepter. After King shouted, "Long live the heavyweight king! Long live the king!", six trumpeters dressed in Elizabethan tunics blared a fanfare, and Ali placed...