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...Democrats speculated about a link to the National Security Administration's controversial warrantless wiretapping program. An Intelligence Committee spokesman tells TIME that the bill was initially pulled because of "national security concerns" they wanted addressed, but once those issues were raised they had no problems with the bill. Don Weber, a spokesman for the NSA, told TIME, "Given the nature of the work we do, we do not discuss actual or alleged operational issues as it can provide those wishing to do harm to the United States insight that could potentially place Americans in danger. However, it is important...
FASHION MODEL Read Caroline Weber's engaging book Queen of Fashion for an inside look at Marie Antoinette's sumptuous royal style. Or be queen for a day, and try on some gowns yourself: Alexander McQueen and John Galliano have M.A.-inspired designs...
...Weber who persuaded the photographer Alfred Stieglitz to mount a Picasso show in 1911 at Stieglitz's pioneering 291 Gallery in New York City. That exhibition, Picasso's first in the U.S., included at least some of his newest Cubist images. For budding American modernists like Arthur Dove and Marsden Hartley, it was a first glimpse of work that would transform their own. Later the inexhaustible Stuart Davis came across Picasso's work and likewise reunderstood himself. In the 1920s Davis saw the broad, sharp-edged, irregularly shaped planes of color in some of Picasso's later Cubist work...
...first they had to learn that he existed at all. That turns out to be a story that begins with the painter Max Weber, a Russian Jewish émigré to New York City. It was Weber who brought the first Picasso canvas to the U.S., in 1909, on his return from a four-year stay in Paris, where he had befriended the indispensable Gertrude Stein and her brother Leo, cocksure tastemakers and champions of Picasso. By that year Picasso and Braque were already off and running through the first stages of Cubism. Meanwhile, advanced American painting, such...
...minute-plus speech, it ain't a Sorkin show.) After he is fired, the new network president (Amanda Peet) persuades former Studio 60 writers Matt Albie (Matthew Perry) and Danny Tripp (Bradley Whitford) to take over and revitalize the show. Complicating their job are a meddling corporate boss (Steven Weber), Danny's announcement that he tested positive for cocaine and Matt's history with star Harriet Hayes (Sarah Paulson), a born-again Christian he broke up with because she appeared on The 700 Club. (Sorkin, who has had drug run-ins and dated devout Christian and West Wing actress Kristin...