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...Truman Library in Independence noticed a get-right-with-Truman surge about the time of Jerry Ford, who insisted on having his portrait in the Cabinet Room. Jimmy Carter asked for Truman's THE BUCK STOPS HERE sign. The library sent him a facsimile. Ronald Reagan had a paperweight on his desk that said THE BUCKAROO STOPS HERE. Bush had McCullough into the White House for a Truman lecture, set up Harry's portrait in the East Room and happily hovered around...
...Bank, observed during a recent Cairo lecture dealing with culture shock that there were "certain symbols of a society dissociated from its own people." The most spectacular of all, said Serageldin, "may be the basilica in the Ivory Coast. In all the mosaics, the only black person is the portrait of the President." Yet a young local woman asks a Westerner, "Do you think a poor country like this shouldn't have the right to something that grand...
...king and queen of Manhattan's glitterati. For a decade they were the wax-doll couple atop a cake at the wedding of popular art and social responsibility. He made, and she starred in, movies that played like fantasies of their partnership. Offscreen, their liaison produced the portrait of an ideal postmodern family. Unmarried, they lived apart yet loved together. While nurturing a rainbow coalition of privileged American kids and children salvaged from the Third World, Mom and Dad lived the city's most public private lives. Tout New York was their movie set, Madison Square Garden their all-star...
HOUSTON--The first page of the 1992 Republican Platform is a translucent sheet with a portrait of Abraham Lincoln and quotations stating traditional GOP positions...
...lines. Honesty is like bread -- a commodity on rations. Oppenheimer, a Pulitzer-prizewinning correspondent for the Miami Herald, found a way around this difficulty: he carried letters from Cubans in Miami to relatives on the island, thus gaining their trust. As a result, he captures a truer, if sadder, portrait of Cuba today...