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...authorized this bizarre policy of revision and neglect was one of the three executors of Smith's estate, Art Critic Clement Greenberg. About ten sculptures underwent change at Greenberg's whim, some irrevocably. Flat paint can be resprayed, but some of Smith's polychrome works were painted in a splashy, brushy manner-a handwriting that can no more be restored than the excited scribbles he made with a grinder on the skin of his stainless-steel pieces...
...farmers and small-town people. Later he flew airmail between St. Louis and Chicago, which in the primitive conditions of the '20s was about as hazardous as riding the Pony Express through a tribe of angry Comanches. A natural flyer, with as certain a feel for the whim of his plane as a bareback rider for his horse, he was ineluctably drawn to aviation's biggest prize: $25,000, offered by a New York hotel owner for the first successful completion of the 3,600-mile solo flight between New York and Paris. With the backing of some...
...replace the President in the event of death or incapacity and that he preside over the Senate. The former is hardly a full-time job, and the latter is a ridiculous chore, increasingly honored by neglect. Any additional duties are given to a Vice President at the discretion and whim of the President and, as Hubert Humphrey knowingly reminded Gerald Ford earlier this year, "he who giveth can taketh away-and often does...
Though the plot is like a Ross Macdonald garden of sin buried and retribution delayed, the book resembles a conventional detective story only when Mark Smith's whim turns to parody. Like the two dozen other fully drawn figures who crowd the story, Detective Magnuson seems something less than real, and neither the reader-nor the author-is sure just how seriously to take...
...train herself as an auto mechanic. More recently, there has been a growing recognition that many middle class women turn to work to relieve the psychic poverty of their lives. But America has yet to acknowledge the incontrovertible fact that the vast majority of women work neither for whim nor for pleasure. They work (as do the vast majority of men) because if they don't work, they...