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...years later, are drawn into the earth, their limbs and puffy faces asserting the heaviness of sleep. His trellised roses are inordinately fleshy; his apples, red and bruised -- no perfect objects of oral desire here -- are solid as stone. He painted hair, especially the thick curly tresses of Whistler's Irish mistress Jo Heffernan, as though he were running his fingers through...
Mount came under suspicion last month after Goodspeed's, a Boston bookstore, paid him $20,000 for 27 documents, including nine letters from Portraitist James McNeill Whistler and one from James. In early August Mount approached the bookstore again with an offer to sell a collection of rare Civil War manuscripts featuring three Lincoln letters. Suspicious store officials alerted the FBI, which arrested Mount when he returned to the bookstore with the Lincoln letters on Aug. 13. A subsequent search of his safe-deposit box in Washington turned up a cache of some 200 papers from the Civil...
...these days the eyes water like a weak opinion, and the skin on her hand < feels like pie dough rolled on an enamel tabletop. (Let me give you a hand, Mom.) A Whistler pose, she is content to sit staring outward much of the time, as if on the deck of a Cunard liner, or to dip into that biography of Abigail Adams you gave her (a lady for a lady), at manageable intervals. Television interests her not, except occasionally the nature shows that PBS specializes in. Motionless before the mating eland. The memory clicks on and off. The older...
...which the rest of the century's camerawork would turn. By the early 1920s he had already established an international reputation for mildly swoony images in gray-beige tones. He had also grown restless with pictorialism, which took its inspiration from impressionism, symbolism and the damper moments of Whistler. In time, he found a new expressive vocabulary in the angles and hard lines of constructivism and cubism, which he matched to a new photographic method. The focus was sharp. The prints were made directly from the negative, without an enlarger. The chemical manipulations that produced the soulful fogs of pictorialism...
When he got back to Detroit that same day, Iacocca wrote the Secretary to say "I have now read the letter you handed me in our meeting today, and I + understand from our discussion that the letter is being held in abeyance." Back came a whistler from Hodel: "I wish to assure you that my Feb. 10 letter to you was effective upon delivery, remains so, and is not 'being held in abeyance...