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...Birmingham slouched in his throne-like chair, seemingly oblivious to debate on the floor, rank-and-file Senators like Montigny scrambled to please the Senate president...
...outsider art, call it what you will, has always been one of the traditional American homes of the visionary. Perhaps its single most intense expression in American sculpture--or environment making--was the three-dimensional work assembled between 1950 and 1964 by a Washington janitor named James Hampton, The Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations Millennium General Assembly. The visionary urge appeared less often in professional art, until Modernism arrived. There are elements of it in the work of Thomas Cole and in the dark, brooding landscapes of Ralph Blakelock (1847-1919), who was to suffer a depressive...
...cases that run along the entire length of the gallery. They range from Yan Liben's Thirteen Emperors' Scroll, the only surviving visual record of a series of Chinese emperors, to the scrolls of the famous emperor and artistic patron Huizong, whose devotion to the arts cost him his throne, to the earliest portrait of Confucius. These paintings overwhelm the viewer not only with their historical importance but also with their delicate and subtle rendering of volume, depth and material detail...
...politics." He doesn't mean that as a compliment. Once loyal House members have spent the winter complaining that the leadership has no strategy, little vision and few principles anymore. Senior members, including some of Gingrich's princes, like Dick Armey and Bill Paxon, have been spotted eyeing the throne and measuring the crown...
...glorification of the human body in heaven: "Compare a hairy peach pit to the tree it becomes, loaded with fragrant blossoms and sweet fruit." Like Russell's, Tada's heaven is firmly God-centered ("Most of all, together we shall fall on our faces at the foot of the throne and worship our Savior forever"). Her musings are scripturally solid, although she points out that even biblical tropes are "only shadowy images of the real thing." Perhaps most important, she is not afraid to sell. "Oh, the things that we shall do!" she writes. "You and your friends will rule...