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...candidate does venture a stand, he often does so primarily to adjust his media image. For example, when Bush denounces the registration of firearms, he not only gains the support of the boys down at the rifle club, but also adds an important conservative brush stroke to his self-portrait. Journalists can further muddle the hazy relationship between issues and images by failing themselves to differentiate between...
Goodman's essay, entitled "The Captain's Self-Portrait: John Smith as Chivalric Biographer," discussed the autobiographical writing of Captain John Smith in terms of the romance novels and popular fiction familiar to him, Goodman said yesterday...
Emile Nolde's "Portrait of Mary Wigman," one of the few non-abstract works in the collection, stands out in bold simplicity to the rest of the works in the show. In an exhibit where you have to peer at Paul Klee's miniscule scribblings with your nose six inches from the paper, Nolde's portrait grabs you from the doorway...
...ended up in Tangiers, searching for veins, staring at his foot, not changing his clothes or taking a bath for an entire year. In 1952, Burroughs completed Junky, a clinically realistic portrait of his addiction. Allen Ginsberg, who had met Burroughs while an undergraduate at Columbia, peddled Junky all over New York and finally found a publisher in Carl Solomon, whom he had met in a looney bin. The acceptance of Junky by Ace Books encouraged Burroughs to continue writing...
...oldest of the captives, retired Foreign Service Officer Robert C. Ode, 64, had written several of them. In a message addressed to the President, Ode begged Carter to "free us from this terrible situation." An almost identical letter to the Washington Post painted a moving portrait of the hostages' mental and physical suffering. Wrote Ode: "We are being kept in semidarkened rooms; our hands are tied day and night; bright lights are kept burning all night and because of the constant noise it is almost impossible to sleep...