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Doesn't anyone find it strange that over the years this man has worn white shoes, white socks, a white suit, a white tie, a pair of white gloves, a pair of white glasses...practically all the time? JOHN P. SHEEHY Larkspur, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 23, 1998 | 11/23/1998 | See Source »

...people visited her retrospective at the National Gallery of Art in Washington. (By comparison, Andrew Wyeth--perhaps postwar America's most cherished artist--drew 558,000 visitors to his retrospective at the National Gallery.) That same year O'Keeffe's Black Hollyhock with Blue Larkspur, 1929, was sold at auction for the artist's record of $1.98 million. In the decade since, her paintings have seen the curve of descent and rise that the art market, in general, has known. "Now O'Keeffe's values are picking up," says Andrew Schoelkopf, a senior vice president at Christie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ART: O'KEEFFE ENSHRINED | 7/28/1997 | See Source »

...tails raised, seeking to establish hegemony over the turf that will become a summer home for mate and offspring. The battle is fierce but short; the loser scuttles off into the sagebrush. The victor preens on hind legs, surveying a domain where shoots of bluebunch wheatgrass, Idaho fescue and larkspur have begun to sprout. It is springtime in the Rockies, and Yellowstone National Park is emerging from hibernation -- and recovering from the most troubled time in its 117-year history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Springtime in The Rockies | 5/29/1989 | See Source »

John Smith's airliner sat at the gate for two hours at Pittsburgh International Airport, and he was famished. What to do? The Larkspur, Calif., lawyer walked into the terminal building, picked up a telephone and called a local Domino's Pizza outlet. Sure enough, 18 minutes later, a delivery boy, clad in red and blue, arrived at Gate 36 carrying a giant pizza with everything on it. Said Smith: "When I walked onto the plane with the pizza, everyone cheered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Saucy Fight for a Slice of the Pie | 4/18/1988 | See Source »

Dony Gideon Larkspur, Colo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 28, 1983 | 11/28/1983 | See Source »

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