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...perhaps it shouldn't have come as such a shock. It used to be that the preferred way for political spouses to gain elective office was to have their husbands keel over. Most of the century's first women in Congress were political widows such as Margaret Chase Smith, the legendary Republican Senator from Maine who succeeded her husband and took on Joe McCarthy. The first woman elected to the Senate was Arkansas's Hattie Wyatt Caraway who was appointed to fill her husband's term in 1932 and was elected on her own later that year. Edith Wilson effectively...
Holmgren masterfully depicts the transition of a composed, confident husband-to-be into a frantic, hysterical wreck. He also does tremendous work in the scene where he discovers a victim of his aunts and registers chilling shock and comic thrills in a long moment of silence filled only with his expressive gestures...
However, the lives of many of these artists have been dedicated to the study of color, geometry and works that spatially shock their viewers. The Barbara Krakow Gallery’s exhibition in no way draws its meaning from the artists or engages with the conceptual consideration evident in the works of art displayed...
...leader, advocating change, albeit slowly, in this most conservative of countries. During two days of meetings with TIME, which included rare visits to his private office, home and horse farm, Abdullah, 78, acknowledged many of Saudi Arabia's ills and discussed his plans for reform. "We have gone through shock and denial," says a Saudi official. "Now we're asking, 'Do we need to change...
MALEVOLENT: (recoiling in shock) Egad! The horror! The horror...