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Out they come from the shadows cast by the Berlin Wall and the skyscrapers of the postwar "economic miracle," the dissidents and mystagogues of what came to be known as heftige Malerei (violent painting), the political artists, the conceptualists with chips on their shoulders. Some were raised in the divided...
Administration officials voiced confidence that the escort is more likely to deter attacks than provoke clashes. They cautioned, however, that the danger of terrorist strikes against U.S. embassies and foreign installations may increase. The spiraling tensions between Paris and Tehran last week and the doubts expressed on Capitol Hill underscored...
Astaire also observed that it was time for a dancer to exploit the movies' capacity for intimacy rather than spectacle. In the nine films he made with Ginger Rogers between 1933 and 1939, most of their great numbers were not performed on a stage. Shot full figure in long takes...
Solitude he wishes you as well, but not solitude without a frame. Choose creative times and places to be by yourself. In museums, for instance, where you may confront Vermeer or Velazquez eye to eye. On summer Sundays, too, when you may be alone with the city in its most...
Franklin Roosevelt's romance over the years with Lucy Mercer had a wistful sweetness about it. John Kennedy was ridiculously incautious to get involved with Judith Exner, the girlfriend of a Mafia don. Kennedy's sex drive may have been a healthy creature, a sleek dog that needed to run...