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...Warren, despite his penchant for overripe prose, created an indelible portrait of the American demagogue. And, yes, we acknowledge there is a touch of Willie Stark in every politician who catches the national eye. The line between idealism and opportunism is ever thin as paper. But in Willie's relentless, utterly insatiable appetites there is something beyond the powers of political commentary or literary criticism to convey. It is much more than a conventional ambition, a presidential dream. Lots of men entertain that fantasy. What drives him is an unacknowledged anarchy of the soul. There is no reason why Willie...
...suspicion. And you will continue to be until radical Muslims stop targeting us, because human life is valuable to us. Brondi Ben-Yosef Ness Ziona, Israel Fidel's Brother in Arms Raul Castro is a ruthless man who is responsible for the death of many Cubans [Aug. 21]. Your portrait describes a man who "has always respected the family" and who "seems comfortable with who he is." What about the families of those who have died or who continue to suffer imprisonment for their political or religious beliefs in Cuba? There is no need to present the Castros in soft...
...inequality rampant in our society through him," said Tatsumi (who is now 71 and still going strong) in a 2006 interview included in the book. An example of early manga as nihilist social commentary, Abandon the Old in Tokyo is a revealing time capsule and a strangely moving portrait of survival in a land where everything is changing. ?By Austin Ramzy...
...wanted to find the very best museum who could handle this artwork and could also be scientific,” she said in an interview last week. A FOGGY PASTCornwell worked with conservators at the Fogg after the publication of her 2002 book “Portrait of a Killer,” which identified Sickert as the Whitechapel murderer. She traveled to London with Fogg scientists, who assisted the author as she compared Sickert’s correspondence to letters allegedly written by Jack the Ripper.That research later continued at Harvard. Cornwell gave the center a forensic device, called...
...lens would draw something alluring from the shadows. What came into focus was not so much celebrity as the public's fascination for it. In 1963, Morley was invited by Beatles manager Brian Epstein to Liverpool, where he photographed the band's birthplace, the Cavern nightclub, in the best portrait of Beatlemania without any band members: four fabulous nobodies, their doe eyes blinking back the light...