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...worst of all was his popularity, which for much of his life was enormous. Until the other Andy came along - Andy Warhol - Wyeth and Norman Rockwell were without doubt the two most widely recognized names in American art. Wyeth's museum shows were blockbusters and his sale prices strong, especially after the Japanese discovered him in the 1980s...
...Stubbs' shouted "Just look ovah yo' shoulda" makes the singer sound like a stalker. In the movies he was the voice of Audrey II, the voracious plant ("Feed me!") that's really a Mean Green Mother From Outer Space in Little Shop of Horrors. Another Motown treasure, songwriter-producer Norman Whitfield (I Heard It Through the Grapevine, Papa Was a Rollin' Stone, War), died...
...detail-crammed signs and labels. "It's like a magazine article exhibit-ized." And, like any good magazine article, it has not just a beginning and middle, but also an end. One of the last things you see is a 1932 replica of a never-built luxury liner by Norman Bel Geddes, who - along with the likes of Gilbert Rohde and Donald Deskey - formed a rising group of distinctively American designers. Bel Geddes' model is the same size as the Normandie at the show's entrance, but sleeker and more futuristic - a metaphor for the passing of cultural leadership...
...principal figure was the head of the Bank of England, a fellow called Montagu Norman. He was a complete eccentric. He carried the mystique that Alan Greenspan did a few years ago. His major problem was he had a very fragile mental constitution - not a good attribute if you're a central banker - but he exerted this influence, particularly on Americans. They were just completely bowled over by him. (See pictures of the global financial crisis...
...comfortable on the links as he is at the speaker's podium or the basketball court. Obama has played golf three times during his trip home to Hawaii for the Holidays, and each time he has looked less than presidential, but not terrible, according to local professionals. Norman-Ganin S. Asao, the head professional at Olomana Golf Links where Obama learned the game as a teenager and where he plays at least once during each trip home to Honolulu, says Obama has "maybe a 20'something handicap" based on the swings he's seen. "He's not a bad golfer...