Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Leaving to take her strip-tease talent on a tour of England, Gypsy Rose Lee obliged shipboard photographers with samples (see cut), called her sister June (Affairs of State) Havoc to get in on the bon voyage act for plugs all around...
Useful Yolk. Wyeth's sister Henriette (herself a portraitist) had married Painter Peter Hurd-a fast friend of Andy's. Together Peter and Andy explored the meticulous egg-tempera technique, painting with small brushes on panels, which suits them both perfectly. The technique was standard during the Renaissance, and Wyeth says that "so much hokum has been written about it you feel you have to be a chemist to start on a picture." Wyeth's method is simple: for each day's work he mixes the yolk of one egg with a little distilled water, makes...
Scolded by testy cab drivers, seared by his best girl's refusal to elope with him, and surrounded by an adult world of "phonies," he loses control of his tight-lipped histrionics. He sneaks home for a midnight chat with his perky ten-year-old sister, breaks down and cries on her bed. In a moving moment, he tells her what he would really like to do and be: "I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody's around-nobody...
...dream," says Sister Francis Terese, "is one day to have a school here for the blind. We feel that some time our dream will come true...
...view of Central Park and a great many empty bookshelves. "I don't want to learn anything now," says Dagmar, explaining the absence of books. "If this is what you get for being dumb, I love it." Her success has also paid for a secretarial course for her sister, a college education for her brother, a new groom house for her parents in Huntington...