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...courts. They (and their sitters) want a likeness that conveys how ordinary Americans live, what manner of people they are -prosperous but plain, not elegant but confident. Such elements may not survive either in the new Republic or in its art; but as of now, these painters, this instinct, are what is inherently American. We should cherish them...
...instructed to place a cryptic ad in the Los Angeles Times, then heard from a man who turned over 22 letters to the unnamed woman. Meredith added that two graphologists have verified the handwriting. Said he: "I'm not satisfied yet that they're authentic, but my instinct tells me they are." A San Clemente spokesman described it all as "a sordid hoax...
Founded in protest and nurtured in militancy, the black press long made a rough and sometimes roisterous contribution to U.S. news reporting. Thirty years ago the Pittsburgh Courier had 23 editions, a circulation of 355,000 and an instinct for the jugular. It once hired a white reporter to infiltrate the Ku Klux Klan, and conducted a public fund drive to pay Jackie Robinson's travel expenses to Brooklyn after the Dodgers said they were ready to break baseball's color line. The Baltimore-based Afro-American chain told its 154,000 readers what was happening in their...
...roll act starting out in the late 1950s, a group starring three sisters, slightly reminiscent of the Supremes. That is the notion behind Sparkle, a casually enjoyable excursion into the predictable heartbreak and unlikely triumphs of show biz. Sister (Lonette McKee) is the eldest, beautiful, with a fatal instinct for the wrong kind of man. Dolores (Dwan Smith) is vaguely uneasy about everything, whether it is performing or walking down the Harlem streets. Sparkle, the youngest (Irene Cara), is the most innocent, and perhaps the most talented. Under the tutelage of a good fellow named Stix (Philip M. Thomas...
...novelist, Howar seems to have learned a lot from old movies and talk shows. Her basic technique is the flashback and her keenest instinct is for the spiky remark. "You political types are permitted to get caught with your hand in anything except another man's," Lilly tells two Government officials whose groping she has mischievously joined under the dinner table. Such dialogue befits TV Critic Lilly Shawcross, who is described as falling somewhere between Pauline Kael and Rex Reed. As a fictional character she inhabits a latitude equally indeterminate and unlikely - between Becky Sharp and Mary Tyler Moore...