Word: portraits
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bedded Lord Astor and Douglas Fairbanks Jr. . . . Mariella Novotny, who claims John F. Kennedy among her lovers, hosted an all-star orgy where a naked gent, thought to be film director and Prime Minister's son Anthony Asquith, implored guests to beat him . . . Osteopath and artist Stephen Ward, whose portrait subjects include eight members of the Royal Family, has been charged with pimping Keeler and Rice- Davies to his posh friends. Part of Ward's bail was reportedly posted by young financier Claus von Bulow...
Mikhail Gorbachev has a nightmare, and it keeps coming true. In various corners of the world's last empire, demonstrators wave placards, some of them bearing Gorbachev's portrait; they hurl slogans, including some he made famous; they taunt troops, all of whom he commands from Moscow. Shouts lead to shots, and a riot becomes an enactment of Gorbachev's greatest dilemma: the relaxation of control can also mean disorder, which in turn can provoke repression, reversing reform and jeopardizing the political survival of the reformer. Last week it happened in Tbilisi. Next week, or next month, it could happen...
...author, then 36, used these private notes as warm-up exercises for the day's work. He gave himself pep talks: "This must be a good book. It simply must. I haven't any choice." To readers today, the fascination of this document rests in its portrait of an artist at the peak of his skills. Steinbeck's outrage at the mistreatment of Dust Bowl migrants in California, which he had witnessed firsthand, fused with his storytelling abilities to produce the most powerful book he would ever write. It won him the Pulitzer Prize and contributed mightily to his Nobel...
...Koop gently addressed Mapplethorpe's illness, turning to , the artist before saying goodbye: "I hope it goes well for you." Thirty- seven days later, on March 9, Mapplethorpe died at New England Deaconess Hospital in Boston. He was 42. The Koop photograph turned out to be Mapplethorpe's last portrait assignment...
After the Reagans, whose immediate familes were estranged and alienated, left the White House, the Bushes arrived, complete with family portrait. After hiring Roger Ailes and Lee Atwater and conducting one of the most brutal campaigns in recent memory, George Bush turned into Pappa Bush...