Word: subs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...been admitted for decades. Its inaugural show, American Women Artists 1830-1930, consisted mainly of loans; but even so, except for some paintings by Cecilia Beaux, Romaine Brooks and, of course, O'Keeffe, it was a dull florilegium of derivative kitsch. Who would waste ten minutes on these sub-Sargent portraits, these mincing imitations of Childe Hassam, these genre scenes crawling with dimpled rosy brats, if they had not been painted by American women? And what serious artist wants gender to be the primary classification of her art? Lee Krasner did not want to be in a ghetto with "women...
Rode his snazzy high-tech sub...
...Lest the sub become Tuck's tomb...
...them is former Soviet Spy Christopher Boyce). With a roughhewn, 6-ft. 5-in. physique, Wilson exudes a sense of physical power despite his confinement. He is eager to talk about what he claims were his professional and commercial ties with several of the individuals implicated in the sub-rosa schemes run by Lieut. Colonel Oliver North. In particular, Wilson mentions retired Air Force Major General Richard Secord and former high-level CIA Officials Thomas G. Clines and Theodore G. Shackley. All of them, he says (and has said previously to prosecutors who did not believe him), were partners...
...hoax? A spokesman for the Times said absolutely not. Since there are so few fully operational subs in existence, many maritime brokers felt sure they would know of the vessel if it were genuine. Argued a spokesman for H. Clarkson, the London ship brokers: "It's absolute nonsense." The U.S. Navy tried unsuccessfully to locate the sub's owner. By week's end the owner of the mystery vessel -- was it Captain Nemo? -- had not yet surfaced...