Word: yorke
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...passes through Chicago, Washington, San Diego and Phoenix, Ariz., then touches down at the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, Mass.--the place where his work is usually confined, to contain any risk of aesthetic infection. It's that the tour ends in triumph at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City, an institution founded as a stronghold of "nonobjective art." If Rockwell can enter the Guggenheim, look soon for Mapplethorpe at the Vatican...
...books, taken together, right that imbalance somewhat. Edward M. Kennedy, A Biography by New York Times reporter Adam Clymer (William Morrow; 692 pages; $27.50) is a painstaking reconstruction of the Senator's life that winds up placing him alongside such other Senate giants as Hubert Humphrey and Robert Taft. In Love with Night: The American Romance with Robert Kennedy by Ronald Steel (Simon & Schuster; 220 pages; $23) is a hard-eyed rumination on the difference between the real (and of course flawed) Robert Kennedy and the popular memory of his greatness...
...health needs and the church's position--through an independent provider or separate funding source. Without practical alternatives, women across America could be left without the affordable reproductive health care that is the most basic to women during their child-bearing years. ALEXANDER C. SANGER, PRESIDENT Planned Parenthood New York City...
...available that convert the printed pages of books, magazines and newspapers into speech through technology that scans the printed text. This is an absolute blessing and eases the burden of sight loss, affording blind people the opportunity to enjoy topical printed material without additional human assistance. CYNTHIA GROOPMAN New York City...
...that teen worship will turn us from the golden calf into a tarnished cow. Even though we have got more attention, we are still the same people. The extra focus on teens and children in today's society is not necessarily a bad thing. LISA CHEN, AGE 17 New York City...