Word: secrest
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Robertson and thousands of citizens. Her staunchest supporter is Dana Brown, the prison chaplain she met and married two years ago--a relationship that has never been consummated, even by a kiss, because death-row inmates are not allowed contact with visitors. Says Tucker's attorney, George ("Mac") Secrest: "If ever there was a case for commutation, this...
AUTHOR: MERYLE SECREST...
...BOTTOM LINE: Despite Secrest's sometimes trite prose, Wright's rich life makes compelling reading...
...written about, an authentic genius who was both prolific and profoundly influential, his life packed with dramatic incident and grand gesture. Yet while there have been Wright biographies (including his own maundering, portentous, 1932 memoir), his life hasn't had the acute summation and assessment it deserves. While Meryle Secrest's Frank Lloyd Wright is highly imperfect -- her chats about his personality and architecture are trite almost without exception -- it is still the best so far, a huge and definitive accumulation of fact...
...only do I fully intend to be the greatest architect who has yet lived," Wright declared to a friend in the 1930s, "but the greatest architect who will ever live." Faced with such hubris, Secrest is ever the earnest apologist. "Few people," she writes about a similar outburst, "realized how compensatory those comments actually were." But if anyone should be excused his megalomania, it was Frank Lloyd Wright. He created dozens of masterworks, and his influence on a century of architecture is unequalled. Low-slung suburban houses, cathedral ceilings, wide-open interiors, the blurring of the indoor-outdoor distinction, office...