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...exhibition entitled "Great Victorian Pictures: Their Paths to Fame," organized by Michael Harrison and Art Historian Rosemary Treble for the Arts Council of Great Britain, opened at the Royal Academy in London. There they are, together at last -John Everett Millais's Bubbles, Sir Edwin Landseer's Stag at Bay, George Frederick Watts' Hope, John Collier's The Prodigal Daughter and dozens more. Nothing could have seemed more secure than the fame and popularity of their authors; painters like Lord Leighton or, especially, Alma-Tadema (who, while working on one of his Imperial Roman story-pictures...
Graphic sneaked into a lavish stag party to secretly record unspeakable acts performed by a naked circus troupe. That her camera caught her own father in midslather and led to his financial ruin was of little concern. Her ambition had already driven her to beard a haughty Alfred Stieglitz in his own studio-with his own camera. Other victims of Maude's lens included D.H. Lawrence, Eugene O'Neill, Ezra Pound, Raymond Chandler and Robert Frost, "the biggest son of a bitch I was ever to photograph." E.E. Cummings, T.S. Eliot and Thomas Mann get flattering portraits...
...fled to Switzerland and died in exile in 1877. There is always room for argument over the extent of Courbet's realism. The man who insisted on setting down the bald truth of visual experience, from a drunken priest's red nose to the drool on a stag's jaws, was allegorist and history painter as well as factual witness; and there he could be very puzzling indeed. The debate on Courbet has been stepped up by a magnificent retrospective that opened this fall at the Grand Palais in Paris and will move to London in January...
Harvard-Radcliffe's only winning boat in the `76 Head, the victors of the women's four with coxswain race (White Stag Trophy) will return as the top-seeded boat in this year's four event. Becky Goff, Ruth Colker, Cynthia Strong, Karen Oberhauser and cox Diana Shaw will defend the title in this year's boat. Colker is the only returner from last year's winning boat...
...will slowly clear, and not until next October will it again enjoy such attention. But the one autumn day will remain as a glorious celebration of a grand, old sport. Event Estimated Starting Time 1. Veteran's Singles (Mowatt Trophy) 10 a.m. 2. Women's Fours with Coxswain (White Stag Trophy) 10:25 a.m. 3. Double Sculls (Cromwell Trophy) 10:50 a.m. 4. Lightweight Eights (Boston Herald American Trophy) 11:10 a.m. 5. Elite Fours with Coxswain (Schaefer Trophy) 11:30 a.m. 6. Novice Singles 11:45 a.m. 7. Intermediate Fours with Coxswain (M.D.C. Trophy) 12:10 a.m. 8. Women...