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...port town climb ships' ropes to come ashore. Now we get the sound of bombs and artillery fire, before a Winston Churchill figure (irreverently dubbed Mr. Piggy) announces that the war is over. The girl who would become Queen Elizabeth II struts about in a cameo frame, a living portrait. (And a rude one: Her Majesty is played by a man, as we discover when she removes the frame, her wig and most of her clothes...
...soft and pampered boomer generation - "well-meaning little men," as TR once called the type, "with receding chins and small feet" - TR is a perfect reproof, and they respond by embracing him. Clinton placed a bust of the Rough Rider on his desk. Bush moved TR's portrait to a prominent spot in the Cabinet room, and to many an Oval Office visitor he proudly points to his desk as the same one Roosevelt used. "I call him Ted," the President has said...
...issue. We commissioned pieces from the historian Paul Kennedy and some of Roosevelt's most prominent recent biographers, including Kathleen Dalton, Candice Millard and Patricia O'Toole. Presidential adviser Karl Rove sent in his story Friday morning, and it instantly became the endpiece of the package. The striking cover portrait is by the artist Michael J. Deas, who has now painted four of our Making of America cover images. D.W. Pine designed the splendid-looking package, Jackson Dykman created the one-of-a-kind graphics, Jay Colton was tireless in finding distinctive pictures, and reporters Andrea Dorfman and Deirdre...
...million Amount paid by cosmetics tycoon Ronald Lauder for Gustav Klimt's 1907 portrait Adele Bloch-Bauer I?the highest price ever paid for a painting $104 million Price paid in 2004 for Picasso's 1905 Boy With a Pipe, the previous record holder
...MILLION J.M.W. Turner Juliet and Her Nurse 1970 $5.5 MILLION Diego Velázquez Portrait of Juan de Pareja 1961 $2.3 MILLION Rembrandt van Rijn Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer