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...nothing gives the game away quicker than a glass eye that cannot blink. His work belongs in the context of photorealist painting, but it incorporates more illusions than painting can. The great period for waxworks was the 17th to 18th century, when the favorite court artist of the next-to-last Medici, Cosimo III, was a Sicilian named Gaetano Zumbo, whose fiendishly detailed wax tableaux of plague-rotted bodies are still preserved in Florence. Hanson's proles, drunks, junkies and bulgy housewives do not reek of mortality like that, but they have a quotidian sourness about them, and their...
DIED. John D. MacArthur, 80, America's next-to-last known billionaire (only Shipping Tycoon Daniel K. Ludwig, 80, now remains); of cancer; in West Palm Beach, Fla. Son of a dirt farmer and wandering evangelist, MacArthur bought Bankers Life & Casualty during the Depression for $2,500 and through mail-order techniques built it into America's second largest health and accident underwriter. Although he also had multimillion-dollar interests in other companies and in real estate, MacArthur maintained an eccentric and frugal existence, pocketing desserts he could not finish on airplane flights and picking up discarded soft...
...after the all-star break. They then made the Phillies look like soft vendors in a playoff series that lasted only four games. Meanwhile, 3000 milvs to the East, New York was staging a three-team Texas Death Match in the American League East that went to the next-to-last day of the season, only to go on to win its second consecutive toss-up series with Kansas City to earn the right to play the bullying Dodgers...
...author's next-to-last act of naiveté. For The Spy Who Came In from the Cold earned enough to bankroll the whole Foreign Office staff. Graham Greene granted it a rare encomium: "The best spy novel I have ever read." Three and a half million readers agreed. Cornwell handed in his resignation and assumed the identity of John le Carré, thriller writer...
Among the well-wishers in attendance was James Q. Wilson, Shattuck Professor of Government, who sat in the next-to-last row during Moynihan's lecture--in which he was mentioned several times. Wilson said he came to Moynihan's lecture because he "wanted to congratulate" Moynihan. "I thought I should come here to see him," he said...