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Variations on the King Richard Effect are at work in Oliver Stone's JFK. Richard III was art, but it was propaganda too. Shakespeare took the details of his plot from Tudor historians who wanted to blacken Richard's name. Several centuries passed before other historians began to write about Richard's virtues and suggest that he may have been a victim of Tudor malice and what is the cleverest conspiracy...
Here and elsewhere in this excellent show, one sees Van Dyke chasing the Tudor stiffness out of painting, inventing the conventions of future English portraiture, the tropes on which Gainsborough, Reynolds and even Sargent would continually draw. The court he served was the most sophisticated one England would ever have. He did not outlive it; it was collapsing as he lay dying at the end of 1641. But Van Dyck had already changed English art decisively, and much for the better...
...This is not an issue that popped up this year. This has been going on for 10 to 20 years," said Inger Tudor '87, one of the lawsuit's signees. "Part of the point is to let them know we are tired...
Money manager Paul Tudor Jones makes money every year -- he made 201% in the crash year 1987 -- so in May I paid special attention when he gave a gloomy interview in Barron's. If Jones thought the Dow was precarious at 2650, so did I. It zoomed, leaving me with my puts and my shorts and my dwarfs...
...Tudor says that she felt the stage interaction and relationships came more easily for the women...