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...American Ski Foundation, had actually footed the bill for Mrs. Sununu's airfare and their daily expenses. "We took their word for it," said the aide. In fact, the foundation has been inactive for several years, and currently has less than $100 in its bank account. Says Joe Prendergast, who heads the American Ski Federation: "We used to have a foundation. It's defunct...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On A Slippery Slope | 5/6/1991 | See Source »

...MAURICE PRENDERGAST, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City. Prendergast evolved from a sign painter to one of the pathfinders of post- impressionism in the U.S. This retrospective traces the full arc of his progress. Through Sept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Voices: Jul. 9, 1990 | 7/9/1990 | See Source »

...good things in it. Its highlights run from Rembrandt Peale's stiff but historically interesting Porthole Portrait of George Washington and Samuel Morse's The Gallery of the Louvre to a good Eakins, a vigorous Mary Cassatt of boaters feeding ducks, and a set of admirable monotypes by Maurice Prendergast. There is also some very minor work by famous names (Homer, Martin Johnson Heade, John Frederick Kensett) and a plethora of those 1890s contre-jour pictures of nice Boston girls in flowing chiffon scarves -- genteel provincial salon painting that has been revived as a market craze for investors now that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: How To Start a Museum | 8/10/1987 | See Source »

...find expression only in public places. Status, not love, is their true goal. Jennings wears designer fashions but cuts out the labels to avoid seeming affected. Billy dines at Mama's, a celebrity watering hole where "they serve you your importance." And Kelly acquires the right stuff at Prendergast's ("Prendie's"), a Bloomingdale's-like store whose underwear department, Private Parts, is off-limits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Medium Cool | 5/21/1984 | See Source »

...Suddenly, Martin tried to escape. Finding the exit blocked, he headed for Arthur. Martin punched the judge in the face, drawing blood and sending him sprawling. Last year in a Chicago courtroom, Defendant Wayne Ellis grabbed a revolver from a policeman's holster, aimed it at Judge William Prendergast and pulled the trigger three times. Fortunately, the gun was empty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Open Season on the Judiciary | 11/9/1981 | See Source »

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