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The chain of ownership has also been the subject of considerable dispute. Some specialists trace it directly back to the painter's sister-in-law. Tasset and others claim the first owner was the art dealer Amedee Schuffenecker. That would raise serious questions: Schuffenecker was notorious for selling fake paintings...
The Academie Francaise's much-publicized hysteria over the bastardization of the French language by Americanisms is only the tip of France's long-standing obsession with language. In the 18th-century court portrayed in "Ridicule," the skillful manipulation of language is the sole means of gaining and keeping social...
As Christopher Reeve's mom, I congratulate you on your excellent profile of him. Although I knew that this cover story was coming, I confess I was unprepared for the onslaught of tears that overcame me when I read it. Your report brought back a lot of memories and painted...
Which is a shame, because Yglesias is a skillful, intelligent writer and the questions addressed in this novel have some real bite. To what extent are people responsible for their own behavior? Who is to assess their degree of guilt or innocence? And how is it possible to distinguish the...
One of the goals of Shawn Levy's astute and absorbing King of Comedy: The Life and Art of Jerry Lewis (St. Martin's Press; 512 pages; $24.95) is to remind us that for almost two decades, from the late '40s to the mid-'60s, Lewis was a virtually unprecedented...