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Another of Van Dyck's clients, however, the Countess of Sussex, lamented that he had made her look "very ill-favourede," stout in the cheeks, like one of the winds huffing and blowing. "But truely," she conceded, "I thinke it tis lyke the originale." The fact is that flattery is not a word that can quickly be defined, at least in portraiture. How it is used, what it means, depends on how the sitter feels about himself and how posterity will feel about the sitter. Our own bias, in a post-Freudian age, is toward portraits that show...
...Tis the season to mint money. Hollywood traditionally saves its big comedies for Christmas and, almost invariably, fills its stockings with hits. In 1980, for example, a trio of holiday comediesying home with their new video games. This season moviemakers are playing by the old rules, with bantamweight farces and mellow romantic comedies that are luring sizable audiences to the local Cineplex. The class comedy act is Tootsie, in which Dustin Hoffman winningly proves that an actor's life is a drag. But there are other new comedies aiming to answer the moguls' prayer: that this Christmas will be business...
...Tis well...
...Poland free, happy and fearless, And a Wojciech Jaruzelski who's quite soon Premier-less. John Dowling will sing untroubled ditties, Once Mendonca and Herrrmannn clear his life of committees. Joe Restic will travel o'er hill and o'er dale, To finally score some points against Yale. Tis too bad that Hubel won't quite rhyme with Nobel; Still for him, Nico and Wiesel a Swedish Noel...
...BARANCZAK and Mark Fusco will drink a toast, While Garry Trudeau leads a Richard Pipes roast. Brian Byrne, Stacy Campbell and fair Aglaia Senese Each at 14 Plympton will renew their lease. Saul Chafin and Steve Verr will elbows bend To down a glass at their lawsuit's end. Tis a season of mistletoe, turkey and slush For Czeslaw Milosz, Fred Jewett and preppy George Bush. Don Fleming, the cager and evolving Steve Gould, But not Joe Duarte, whose regime will be fooled. Adam Ulam, Ron Erhardt, and talkative Ed Reischauer Gaye Williams, the Space Shuttle and the diamond...