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Beginning this September, Hartnett will be using her political know-how to navigate her way around the American Embassy in Paris as an intern...
...retrospective of 120 works by Kienholz, now at New York City's Whitney Museum of American Art, is a pretty good tribute to this profuse, energetic, sometimes brilliant and sometimes very corny artist. Kienholz didn't believe in refinement. What he believed in was a combination of technical know-how, moral anger and all-American barbaric yawp. Moving through the show is like being alternately slugged and hectored by a redneck Godzilla with strong libertarian-anarchist convictions. His truck used to have ED KIENHOLZ--EXPERT painted on the door. You might not trust Roy Lichtenstein to frame a shed...
...trombone) and the Coin Club, Biology Club, German Club and the Math Club, but he never stayed long and did not strike his classmates as weird or worrisome--unlike another student who wound up in jail. He did have one notable hobby, though: "I remember Ted had the know-how of putting together things like batteries, wire leads, potassium nitrate and whatever and creating explosions," recalls his boyhood friend Dale Eickelman, now a Dartmouth professor. The boys detonated explosives in fields or in a metal garbage can, using ingredients they could scrounge around the house or buy at the hardware...
...Buchanan has that know-how. In the TIME/CNN Election Monitor, he's the G.O.P. candidate with the largest share of supporters, 31%, in the $20,000-to-$35,000 income range. The same group comprises just 21% of Dole's backers, 19% of Alexander's and 14% of Forbes'. Mario Abruzzini, 37, is a bricklayer in Concord, California, who likes Buchanan because he's concerned about immigration but also because he bares his fangs at the business elite. "People need to be aware of how some of these corporations are treating their employees," he says...
...homosexuals on the Hollywood screen. The Birdcage, opening this week, is the rare exception. This gently supportive comedy about gays, a sweet parable of family values, has Robin Williams and Gene Hackman for star quality, writer Elaine May and director Mike Nichols to provide 80 years of comedy know-how, and a famous property for box-office insurance--the hit French play and film La Cage aux Folles. In short, this new version is no more threatening to mainstream American sensibilities than the pro-Indian Pocahontas...