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...Republican principles. "Two years ago," Miller tells Republican audiences, "John Warner stabbed this party in the back and now expects this party to raise him on its shoulders. That is wrong!" His fund-raising letter describes Warner as a Beltway insider more likely to be "dining at the elegant Palm restaurant in Washington with liberal TV 'journalist' Barbara Walters than testing his hunting rifle." That is Miller's way of reminding social conservatives that he is happily married to his college sweetheart while Warner, divorced from a Mellon heiress and Elizabeth Taylor, is a bachelor who has supported some forms...
Shake hands with the tallest member on the 22nd-ranked Harvard men's tennis team, and your palm will disappear into the same hand that has struck fear into the hearts of opposing players throughout the season. There is no question about it--Tom Blake can handle a tennis racquet like few others...
...medallions of the Virgin Mary, polyester roses, a phone card with a picture of the Golden Gate Bridge, an Afro pick, a flowered scarf, a globe key chain, poems and prayers on scraps of paper, crucifixes made from twigs and, in this Easter season, scores of green palm fronds carried straight from the city's churches. One person took off his tennis shoes, scribbled a note on them and tied them to the fence...
That may help explain why so many of his early prints are not much larger than a playing card. At that palm-size scale the solid world starts to dematerialize. Trees in the mist become twigs. Grasses reflected in water, as in his early picture Detroit, look like not fully legible scribbles of some force behind creation. Callahan shared with the Abstract Expressionist painters a penchant for the sublime, but he worked toward it from a different direction. They preferred wall-size canvases, a match for the presumed immensities of the spiritual realm; he made pictures the size...
...made the cut, although Jesus is generally credited with having healed some of the sick. He had a disciple named Mary Magdalene, entered a synagogue at least once and met some Pharisees. As regards the Passion and Easter: all descriptions of Jesus' trial are deemed inauthentic, along with his Palm Sunday statement that he is the Messiah. On the authority of the Jewish historian Josephus, the Seminar records as historical the high priest Caiaphas' denunciation of Jesus to Pilate. When the next book comes out, the Resurrection, predictably enough, will appear in black print ("There's been some mistake...