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...artist at 18, staring at the mirror with the same unswerving, enigmatic gaze that he would cast upon the world for the next 60-odd years of self-portraiture. By 1920 Soyer had a lithographic crayon firmly in hand. With strong, fluid strokes, he sketched a head of singular beauty: a mass of black curls resting on an inverted triangle, the faintly protruding ears pointing downward toward the chin, the eyes shrouded but intent, as always...
...razzmatazz, This Morning's first week was generally awkward and error prone. After a solemn-toned introduction to a supposed report about the economic woes of American auto manufacturers, Economics Editor Dan Cordtz delivered instead a primer on currency exchange rates. Segments on successive days ascribed the singular position of "front runner" for the 1984 Democratic presidential nomination to two men, Edward Kennedy and Walter Mondale. Both anchors made frequent if trivial mistakes: once Steve Bell even announced the time wrong. The show's other anchor, Kathleen Sullivan, who was wooed, perhaps not coincidentally, from a highly visible...
...Reilly is an expert on the subject-the author of The Girl I Left Behind. Washington's Hays Gorey admitted to "misgivings about the reception I would get since, to some activist feminists, men are suspect as objective journalists. But I encountered no formidable barriers." One singular contribution of women to the story is the artwork: the cover and all the illustrations are the work of women artists, under the direction of Deputy Art Director Irene Ramp...
Ensconced in Foggy Bottom, Haig grubbed for turf, sniped at rivals like Richard Allen of the National Security Council and, with his singular energy, charm and connivance, did indeed become the vicar of foreign policy for a President more than slightly bewildered by the routines and realities of geopolitics...
Last week three of Nixon's appointees (Chief Justice Warren Burger, Lewis Powell and William Rehnquist) helped overturn those lower-court decisions. Wrote Powell for the majority: "Because of the singular importance of the President's duties, diversion of his energies by concern with private lawsuits would raise unique risks to the effective functioning of government." A Chief Executive who was vulnerable to such suits, Powell argued, would tend to be overly cautious...