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...remarkable time, had secured an influential patron (Rose Macaulay), an agent and some small renown. London literary life in the 1920s was both glittering and, with the right connections, easy to crack. "Inconceivably," Bowen wrote later, "I found myself in the same room as Edith Sitwell, Walter de la Mare, Aldous Huxley...
...scarlet dragoon's uniform, he preens before a mirror and loftily mouths stanzas from Byron. Playing the highborn gentleman, though fooling no one, Con charges over the countryside on a thoroughbred mare while reducing his daughter to a barroom slavey. He sneers at the Yankees as vulgar traders while owing them money and enjoying none of their trade...
...swaggeringly forth to avenge such an insult by issuing a dueling challenge. Terribly beaten by the police, Con stumbles home in a state of catatonic silence, all the posturing and pride of him. This time he goes forth only to kill the last emblem of his dream, his blooded mare, his Byronic self...
Madigan may be a sometime media hit man for Da Mare's heirs, but he is democratic in his choice of victims. He has blasted all three of the city's major dailies for editorializing in favor of equal opportunity but compiling poor minority-hiring records themselves, and for red-lining their newspaper vending machine out of nonwhite neighborhoods. Nor does he hesitate to bite the CBS hand that feeds him. He has accused the Tribune's TV critic of being soft on the CBS-TV station; he has twitted his network's leading local anchorman...
...greatest weakness is America," says Mare Chagall. "The people are so young and full of life." To indulge his weakness, the artist has created a special treat: a series of stained-glass windows for the Art Institute of Chicago. The 8-ft.-high by 30-ft.-wide windows, unveiled this week, are in commemoration of Chagall's friend the late Mayor Richard Daley. As Chagall explains: "Each window has a different theme-dance, architecture, theater, music, poetry and America." The master, who will be 90 on July 7, doesn't mind if his symbols aren't perfectly...