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Copley never did master the grand manner as prescribed by Reynolds. His huge, ambitious history painting, Watson and the Shark, 1778, is a beloved American classic thanks to, not in spite of, its earnest potpourri of quotations from Titian, Raphael, the Borghese Gladiator and the Laocoon. But at the level of the portrait he was exact and forceful. The tight, heavy faces, didactic hands and subtly registered expressions of Copley's New Englanders read like indexes of American character, and his painting of Thomas and Sarah Mifflin (1773) is one of the great 18th century images of the enlightened...
...retrospective, this show is by no means "definitive." Quite a few key works are absent. The Art Institute of Chicago refused to lend Excavation, 1950, the biggest and most ambitious of de Kooning's biomorphic abstractions, while from the celebrated Women series of the early '50s, those shark-grinning popsies before whose dumpy and threatening torsos so much critical rhapsody has been laid, three of the main paintings (owned by Australia, Iran and the Museum of Modern Art in New York City) are missing. Nor do we get to see Police Gazette, 1954-55, or Gotham News...
...decent room. He hates dirt, and went through four hotels before finding one with hot water. With his trademark cigarette holder in one hand, gin-and-tonic in the other, Thompson is covering the goings-on in Grenada for Rolling Stone. This time he has no "Great Red Shark," the rented Chevy convertible in his account of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, but a rented fire-red mini Moke, an open-sided vehicle that honeymooners use on Caribbean beach tours. He also has a press pass, plenty of Dunhills and unlimited credit at the Red Crab. Just like...
Reagan's rush to invade Grenada was designed to divert attention from his disaster in Lebanon. "We need a win," said Reagan's advisors, so the Yankee shark swallowed the Caribbean sardine, a ploy to whip the population into line behind the red hot Cold War. Meanwhile, Reagan vows that those responsible for the Beirut bombing "will pay." This means more U.S. troops to Lebanon to serve as Israel's cat's pew and shore up the rule of the Phalangist gangsters. The SYL's call for "Marines out of Lebanon now and alive!" evokes the wide-spread anti-government...
...George's were the most trying. Captain Alfred, who calls himself the "Big Fisherman," had argued against taking his 20-ft. vessel into the harbor directly under the guns of the People's Revolutionary Army's (P.R.A.) Fort Rupert. We had worried more about a shark spotted on the five-hour trip from the out island of Carriacou than any trouble we expected ashore. Two U.S. helicopters had buzzed us as we approached, and we waved back with our cameras and radios. But as we came closer to the coastline, we heard the dull thud of bombs...