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...black-and-white photographs he took himself. The results were very strange. The images weren't "expressive." Their obsession is with fact, an overload of fact--not in the least with character. Their eyes don't contact the viewer: they look right through you. They were as anticosmetic as mug shots (some disconcertingly so: young Richard Serra looks like a dockland thug; his wife, artist Nancy Graves, like a snaggle-toothed nut). And it's interesting that Close's heads, then and later, work best when they are either strictly frontal or in profile; any turn or tilt...
...result, every T-shirt, pen or mug that bears the Harvard name must be approved by the University, a task which falls to the trademark office...
...mug shot was a little bigger, you'd see that in the picture I'm actually wearing a striped sweater, my first true item of clothing in the new genre. It is an appropriate, conservative entry into the world of the racing stripe, because: a) the sweater was a gift, and b) the sweater is from The Gap. Still, it is a first step in the struggle to get back in tune with the times, a struggle I will fight with varying degrees of intensity for the rest of my adult life...
...years I wanted to make the cover of TIME in the worst way. And I did. On April 4, 1994, there I was, in mug-shot gray, looking worried over President Clinton's shoulder in the Oval Office, underneath an accusing headline: DEEP WATER: HOW THE PRESIDENT'S MEN TRIED TO HINDER THE WHITEWATER INVESTIGATION. The story wasn't much prettier than the picture. Two years later, nothing remains of the criminal charges leveled against me by anonymous sources in TIME except, of course, my yet-to-be paid legal bills... GEORGE R. STEPHANOPOULOS Senior Adviser to the President...
...first saw it near the coffee machine: her very own mug, with her name (not in lights) but at least on the cup's curve...