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...that includes Susan Rothenberg, Neil Jenney and Brice Marden. Her show of some 45 works, a midcareer report organized by the Dallas Museum of Art with an excellent catalog essay by Art Critic Roberta Smith, will continue after Los Angeles to Des Moines and Minneapolis before finishing at the Whitney Museum in New York City next spring. It should not be missed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Abstraction And Popeye's Biceps | 7/13/1987 | See Source »

...Whitney Houston can sing, and not just too. Beneath the Tiffany wrapping lie the supplest pipes in pop music. Her precocity and virtuosity, her three-octave range and lyrical authority, are, at 23, scary. She can switch moods without stripping emotional gears, segueing from a raunchy growl to an angelic trill in a single line -- no sweat. She coaxes the back-street torch song Saving All My Love for You until the song's Other Woman sounds like a little girl lost in faded rapture. She stands up to the string section in that anthem of enlightened egotism, Greatest Love...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Prom Queen of Soul | 7/13/1987 | See Source »

...Justice Department contends that the 1978 law unconstitutionally abridges traditional executive power over all prosecutors by providing that judicial panels appoint the independent counsels. North has separately filed suit contesting Walsh's authority, and former White House Aide Michael Deaver, facing trial for perjury, is challenging his prosecutor, Whitney North Seymour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Keeping Up His Guard | 6/29/1987 | See Source »

...Times survey was conceived before the Miami Herald broke the news about Gary Hart's dalliance with Donna Rice, but it has become part of the debate about how far the press should go in reporting the private lives of public officials. Republican Candidate Pat Robertson flatly turned Whitney down, pointing out that he was "not applying for employment at the New York Times." Democratic Front Runner Jesse Jackson charged last week that the Times had not distinguished between what is public and what is private. Earlier, a Jackson aide had attempted to rally fellow Democratic candidates to reject...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Full Disclosure, Semi-Outrage | 6/22/1987 | See Source »

Some journalists also found the letter troubling. "I may not be able to define perfectly the 'invasion of privacy' in presidential politics," wrote Boston Globe Columnist Ellen Goodman, "but I know it when I see it. This is it." In the Times's defense, Whitney argues that reporting is "one big fishing expedition. That doesn't mean we print everything we find...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Full Disclosure, Semi-Outrage | 6/22/1987 | See Source »

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