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This line of investigation makes his New York contemporaries view Wyeth as a country cousin. To Larry Rivers, "He's like someone who writes marvelous sonnets, but I don't read sonnets much." To Jack Levine, he is "a symbol of real, real bedrock Americanismo." Painter Robert Motherwell, formerly an art historian, says: "I would imagine that an impressionist would have looked at the pre-Raphaelites with astonishment, and I feel a parallel astonishment regarding the works of Wyeth." But they all look carefully at what Wyeth does, and agree that there is something uncanny, macabre and mysterious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TIME Cover: Andrew Wyeth's World | 1/16/2009 | See Source »

...Boston Globe, “this largely unacknowledged crisis is part of a larger international narrative: from Kingston to London from Los Angeles to Chicago, we are witnessing the globalization of ‘thug life’…this phenomenon has emerged as a powerful symbol of the cultural and political decay of Black civil society...

Author: By Eugene F. Rivers iii | Title: Harvard and the Boston Miracle | 1/16/2009 | See Source »

What is the No. 1 quality you think makes a woman a sex symbol? Erika Mendoza SCOTTSDALE, ARIZ...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Hugh Hefner | 1/15/2009 | See Source »

Well, the No. 1 thing is looks. But then you have to get into something that's much more unique, and that's personality. The universal sex symbol of the 20th century was Marilyn Monroe because she was both sexual and vulnerable. That combination had tremendous appeal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Hugh Hefner | 1/15/2009 | See Source »

...speech, it's short and to the point. As a symbol of the duties of public office, it's momentous. Bibles have been used to consecrate oaths for hundreds of years: they've had a role in the coronation of British monarchs since the 11th century. Swearing on Scripture in courts of law dates back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Brief History Of: Swearing In | 1/15/2009 | See Source »

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