Word: scoops
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...beloved icon to American museumgoers and a nettlesome anachronism to the art establishment. So the Wyeths are girded to ride out, with grace and tweaking good humor, the storm of publicity that broke around them last week, created by a score of press releases sent out to advertise a scoop in Art & Antiques magazine...
...some scoop. For 15 years, from 1970 to 1985, Wyeth had labored in secret on an enormous collection of works: 246 in all, including sketches, studies, drawings, 32 watercolors, twelve drybrush paintings and five temperas. Not even his wife was aware of the magnitude of the undertaking. Moreover, almost all of them were of a middle-aged German whom Wyeth identified only as Helga and who lived near the Wyeths' winter home in Chadds Ford, Pa. Artist and model met in various places over the years, and the resulting works, many of them nudes, are streaked with an intensity both...
...state's powerful oil industry. Meanwhile Weaver has run a poignant series on the survival struggle by the state's Eskimos and launched a folk-adventure column that recently took readers on an open-boat whale hunt. Then last week he dropped a fresh bomb with a front-page scoop about MarkAir, an Anchorage-based airline. According to the News, the U.S. State Department paid Mark-Air to fly supplies to a Nicaraguan contra base in Honduras...
...uniforms sweeping up cigarette butts in front of the imitation- Aztec Mexican pavilion. (Average "life-span" of a piece of street trash before being removed: 4 min.) During the Magic Kingdom's afternoon parade of Disney characters, a sanitation man in old-fashioned vest and black pants materializes to scoop up some horse dung. When the crowd cheers him, he doffs his hat and salutes...
Kampelman the Democrat is out of the Henry ("Scoop") Jackson mold: like the late Washington Senator, he favors liberal social policies while taking a hawkish stance on national defense. He was not always so promilitary. The son of a hat salesman in the Bronx, Kampelman had graduated from New York University and was working his way through law school when he was drafted in 1942. A Jew, he cited religious reasons in declaring himself a conscientious objector. Says he: "I just couldn't see myself killing anyone." Rather than fight, he volunteered for alternative service in a program...