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Inspirations of Tanenhaus include her father, who is also a visual artist. “Dad collects mannequin legs,” says Tanenhaus. “We have a couple sticking out of the lawn in the backyard.” Tanenhaus also mentions a Dali painting with eyes on a plate, which may or may not have been formative. “It’s kind of a cheap shot,” she says. “If you have a limb where it’s not supposed to be, it’s going...
Handmade posters bearing snapshots and excruciatingly detailed descriptions of the missing have multiplied exponentially since last Tuesday, as the fenced perimeter of Union Square’s lawn has become the “Wall of Hope/Mural de Esperanza” under a paper blanket of grief...
...lost 427 points in just two days--3.5% for the week--while the NASDAQ fell 6.5%. At a noon meeting in chief of staff Andy Card's office, top Bush aides decided to clear the President's afternoon schedule and dispatched him, grim faced, to the South Lawn of the White House to reassure Americans--and the markets--that he was "deeply concerned." They summoned House Speaker Dennis Hastert and Senate minority leader Trent Lott for the occasion--a deliberate display, says a top aide, "to show that the Republicans remain united." Lott and Hastert stood by as Bush declared...
Although Bush was flanked by Vice President Dick Cheney and G.O.P. congressional leaders, the far bigger presence on the South Lawn Friday was the memory of his father, whose perceived lack of concern for average people during the last recession cost him a second term. Faced with the 1990-91 downturn, "41," as his son calls him, wasn't much for feeling people's pain or offering them relief. Washington should stand back and "let the economy right itself," the former President used to say, and it eventually did--just in time for him to lose. The elder Bush...
Some Republicans on the Hill wanted to know why Counsellor Karen Hughes was the highest government official anyone saw on television all day, other than Bush's brief, unsettling appearance in Louisiana. They wanted to see Bush stride across the South Lawn and show that this is not a country that can be sent into hiding by cowards. "He better have the speech of his life ready tonight," sighed one Republican strategist. Bush did return a few hours later, did stride across the South Lawn and did deliver a reasonably effective national address from the Oval Office. But it wasn...