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...feeling really involved, not in some useful political way, in the details of things,” she says over coffee at Daedalus. “But I don’t know how much of that is me just wanting to construct myself after the image of Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.” She brightens, looking around her. “And here we are at Daedalus. See? Anyone who knows me will say it: I’m totally a dork...
While Sargent preferred to work on the murals, his fame and demand as a portrait painter often got in the way of the project’s completion...
...then ran it in reverse up some steps and into one of the great windows of the 250-year-old house, shattering the glass and the shutters behind. Eleven paintings were hanging on the walls of the saloon inside, but the gang settled for five, including two by Rubens - Portrait of a Dominican Monk and Venus Supplicating Jupiter. Caught on video-surveillance cameras, the job was done in just 50 seconds, and the thieves made their getaway at speed, driving across three fields before hitting the open road. There was no need to hurry. Russborough House's sole security guard...
...Bush At War, which begins with the events of Sept. 11 and ends with Iraq’s acceptance of U.N. weapons inspections, Woodward analyzes Bush as a wartime president. His portrait is flattering: the public Bush has his faults, but his apparent passion for justice and humanitarianism on a global scale outstrips his malapropisms. The more compelling Bush, however, is the adept facilitator of the numerous cabinet meetings faithfully reconstructed by Woodward...
Four weeks ago, Rawls became the second living philosopher to have a Cambridge Companion volume published on him. His wife painted the portrait of him that appears on the cover...