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...husband President Nicolae Ceausescu. In his grim dictatorship, she increasingly appears to be the power behind the throne. Already Elena Ceausescu, 67, is the object of a personality cult that rivals that of the 68-year-old President. Her birthday, like his, is a national holiday, her portrait waves in street parades, and the Rumanian media resound with her praise. She is variously hailed as the "woman-hero," the "party's torch," the "guiding spirit behind science and culture" and even "mother of the fatherland...
...photographed the heroic proportions of the U.S. aircraft carrier Carl Vinson by suspending a remote camera from the bow of the ship. Formal weddings are tame by those standards. The subject reminded Leifer of a Norman Rockwell illustration, so he took his camera somewhere it seldom goes -- to a portrait studio. He explained, "Roupen Agopian of the Bachrach studio let me photograph him photographing a young couple. I marveled that he took only 45 minutes to complete the session. I had planned to shoot him for two hours...
...area also offers an Alligatorland Safari Zoo (feed the animals with Purina Monkey Chow), a Reptile World Serpentarium ("Time your visit to be present during one of our three daily venom programs") and an Elvis Presley Museum, with displays of Elvis' high school yearbook (his major was shop), a portrait of Jesus that Elvis gave his parents when he was 15 and, for 50 cents, a photostat of the King's death certificate...
Such brilliant success, according to popular wisdom, must have left dark and dreadful shadows. Biographer Vicki Goldberg, an art and photography critic, has indeed dug behind the Bourke-White legend to find some details that the daring camera girl chose not to develop in her autobiography Portrait of Myself (1963). But these snippets hardly amount to the negative image of a triumphant life. Bourke-White did not outdistance her wildest dreams; she plotted her course to the top, assessed the costs along the way and willingly paid them...
Type-A people, Americans have been taught to believe, are the competitive, impatient and hostile individuals who are prime candidates for heart attacks. But after 25 years, that portrait turns out to be highly debatable. At a May 9-10 conference at the University of Kansas, behavioral and medical scientists reached no agreement on whether the subject of the meeting, the Type-A behavior pattern, still exists. "We're all struggling," said Psychologist Larry Scherwitz of the University of California at San Francisco. "We have a concept that's not working. We're trying to find out what's wrong...