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...will be in the Reagan White House, where 19 members of the family and close friends will come for Christmas dinner. To accompany the turkey, the President will get his favorite sweet potatoes with marshmaUows and even some monkey bread, a thick, spongy concoction he relishes. The White House is laced with vivid red, green, gold and white decorations. There is a giant bunch of mistletoe in the foyer, a 19½-ft. Douglas fir from Spartansburg, Pa., and the gingerbread house in the State Dining Room has a jelly bean path to the door...
...Here are most of my paintings, Morandi said to a reporter in the mid '50s, pointing to a thick dried crust of waste pigment that had accumulated through years of wiping on the crossbar of his easel. Morandi erased more paintings than he finished; his self-editing was relentless, a fact which should give pause to anyone who supposes there might not have been much difference between one still life and the next. But the differences, like the nature of his work itself, are hard to catch in words. One can easily say what the paintings are not. They...
...shots of the stars in something less than living Ektachrome. In Hollywood Color Portraits (Morrow; 157 pages; $15.95) Cinema Historian John Kobal has collected 74 of these astonishing pictures. Greats from W.C. Fields to Kim Novak are exposed in ways now unthinkable. A blurred, scarlet-toned Liz Taylor sports thick arm hair; a 5 o'clock shadow darkens Cary Grant's cleft chin; Lana Turner's forehead is marred by blemishes; and the Frank Sinatra of 1945 resembles a textbook definition of adenoidal irregularity. Kobal wisely concludes his collection at 1960. These days, color photographers flatter, airbrush...
...snowbound nature lovers and backyard farmers cause to revel in vividly rendered pears, potatoes and peas. Tendrils of painstakingly crafted calligraphy-herbal aphorisms from Solomon to Poet John Clare-curl through tiny landscapes. There are also illustrated guides to flowers, fragrances and remedies offered by the bewhiskered farmers and thick-waisted matrons who tend these jewel-like plots. As for the predatory animals, like a good gardener, Midda has banished them from the greenery...
...Faculty "can add another chapter to our already thick book of discrimination or they can come clean" and endorse the clause, Wall added. Only the Faculties of Arts and Sciences, and Business Administration have not adopted a non-discrimination policy...