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...portraits would scarcely endure a decade. Soon Soyer was accenting the oddities of his features, while adding elements of costume that gave some of the pictures an air of caricature. His ears stood out more boldly and grew pointier, while a cone-shaped hat made him look like a solemn-eyed Chico Marx. When Soyer produced vast New York City street scenes in the late 1950s, he painted himself in a business suit, shirt and tie and posed, immobile, amid the crowds that passed through his pictures. In 1959 he pulled his glasses onto his forehead, and, in a rare...
...President's sales tactics were sorely tested as he tried to lure other Republican conservative Congressmen back into the fold. When eight of them were invited to the White House, Reagan was solemn. He passed up his usual jokes and stories but employed what one participant called "a lot of eye contact." Reagan claimed that he had no qualms about the bill and had not been talked into supporting it by aides. He insisted that only about 17% of the revenue in the package would come from tax increases (chiefly on cigarettes, telephone bills and airline tickets). The rest...
...extremists' attack in the Ankara airport, their first assault on Turkish soil since beginning their crusade, deeply shook the government. Four members of Turkey's five-man junta attended the solemn state funeral for three policemen and the airport manager who had been slaughtered in the action...
...flower cross that serves as a popular memorial to the late Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski. By the time official military ceremonies began at noon at the adjacent Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, Warsaw residents had already begun to rebuild their cross. While government delegations laid wreaths to the solemn beat of drums, several hundred people gathered around the new cross, praying, flashing V signs and singing their own modified version of the national anthem. It includes such defiant lines as "Lead us Walesa, from the coast to Silesia/ Push on to victory, Polish Solidarity." The police removed the cross the next...
...game grows handsomely solemn when the Nobel Prize committee files into the mental boardroom. Literature degenerates into a responsibility. The Nobel Prize for Literature has of ten been set aside for the writer of greatest geopolitical obscurity (Yugoslavia's Ivo Andric, 1961). But the prize need not be a disgrace: a writer can rise above it. Saul Bellow (Nobel, 1976) has managed. Isaac Bashevis Singer (1978) has done what the greatest and liveliest usually do: he has made a world, a lost, magic place fall of God and demons and strange, tumbling life...