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...sign to juvenile delinquents that they can get away with murder-a green light for them to do anything. My wife and I are not brutal. We don't demand an eye for an eye. But I thought possibly Michael's death wouldn't be in vain. Now he's a lost cause, an absolutely wasted life. These marauding savages have made a laughingstock of the law. I can just see the grins and the ha-ha's in the neighborhood where the Egyptian Dragons live...
...since last August he has been without a regular TV job. He is a victim of TV's power to create a fictive personality that neither make-believe limbo nor enduring flesh can destroy, a historic character of TV folklore uncomfortably survived by himself. Hodge has tried in vain to get dramatic parts and commercial assignments. No director will hire him, arguing that every TV viewer instantly identifies him as the captain. (Standard greeting: "Hello there, Video, what can we do for you?") His only big TV job since 1955 was a commercial in which he was a dentist...
WITH the arrival of the photographer, both painters and sculptors lost the impetus for what through the ages was one of their main functions: recording the great, the vain and the beloved for posterity. One of the few topflight 20th century sculptors who kept at portraiture is Britain's U.S.-born Sir Jacob Epstein, 77. Best known for the press outbursts that until recently greeted such Epstein works as his pregnant Genesis, blocklike Ecce Homo, and misshapen Adam, Epstein holds that portraits rank with the monumental in sculpture. "It's good stuff," he says. "What could be more...
Epstein says that he does not start with a definite conception of his subject. Instead, he believes in allowing the sitter's character to impose itself gradually on the clay as he works. After years of portraiture, he reached the learned conclusion that "men sitters are more vain than women sitters." This may in part explain why some of Epstein's most moving pieces are portraits of women...
...current $2 billion-a-year national income. And Castro, never well armed, is suffering so badly from shortage of guns and ammunition that last week he denounced his principal backer, rich ex-President Carlos Prio, for "living in luxury in Miami" while the rebels eat roots and wait in vain for arms...