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...pleasant disposition likes the world with nobody in it," said the famously cantankerous Georgia O'Keeffe. Last week, when a new museum dedicated to her art opened in Santa Fe, N.M., that quiet world she cultivated disappeared in the crush of celebration. The occasion fueled the sort of media blitz--from Le Monde to the Frankfurter Allgemeine to Town & Country--that she experienced again and again in a career that was launched in scandal when she appeared as the tender (and fully exposed) model in the photographs of her lover and later husband Alfred Stieglitz. She advanced that early fame...
TIME's JFO Mcallister reports that the preliminary budget agreement waiting for President Clinton's return from Vegas is likely to be pleasant after-golf reading. "Clinton has been very successful in maneuvering the Republicans into feeling weak and feeling like they have to compromise." That should still apply when the deal returns to legislators...
...Club; an amusing ballot-stuffing sequence, headed by the ubiquitous Steve Buscemi as Blondie's sister's main squeeze; and even an odd story line about a young jazz musician and the pregnant 14-year-old he befriends. Rounding off the historical side are various pleasant touches: one political makes a mistake about a friend's wife ("Oh, Bess is Truman's wife!"); Blondie takes Mrs. Stilton to an old-fashioned movie theater...
...Graham Greene often argued, innocence is like all other illusions, pleasant but dangerous. Children are not innocent. No one is innocent. Thinking that one is defies reality. Pyle, in Greene's The Quiet American, says innocents should wear little bells, like lepers, to warn others they are coming. He had in mind the Americans who thought we could succeed in Vietnam where the French, despite many years of knowledge about Indochinese culture, language and religion, had failed. That knowledge was Old World knowledge, compromising and corrupt. Like Jefferson Smith, we "did not pretend to know." But we brought clean hands...
...charges to be dropped if she did not commit a crime for two years. Last month she passed that milestone and resigned from the radio job, hoping to open a shop selling the knitted wool clothing she loves to make. But though neighbors and co-workers describe her as pleasant and quiet, her life in San Antonio was still a mess. Five months after she arrived, police were called by neighbors who heard music from her apartment but noticed newspapers piling up untouched outside. A police report says Qubilah came to the door intoxicated, explained that she had been drinking...