Word: sargent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...following year. Edward R. Sargent '34, George H. Hartford '36 and Richard W. Gilder '34 sparked the Crimson to a 3-2 triumph over the Tigers...
Bloom was in fact a shrewd art investor. He bought paintings by Edward Hopper, John Singer Sargent, Mary Cassatt and Willem de Kooning. Among the most expensive: Thomas Wilmer Dewing's Lady in White (worth $750,000) and John White Alexander's Alethea ($660,000). Says Loraine Pack-Liebmann, a Manhattan art dealer: "The kid did well. Many of the works he has bought have appreciated substantially in value." Example: Severin Roesen's Vase of Flowers in Footed Glass Bowl with Bird's Nest, purchased for $175,000, may now be worth $250,000, a potential profit...
...handle the drawings of your favorite artists. Large blue folders will be handed to you and you alone. They're much more interesting than the average doodles you have so much opportunity to observe in your sections. And just think of the opportunities they offer for polite conversation. "Sargent," someone will say, and you will be able to reply, "well, the last time I was handling his drawings..." You have to admit it sounds good...
...best, Nuts is a picture that has much to say about the corrupting power of possessive love. But as adapted for Streisand by Tom Topor and veteran Screenwriters Darryl Ponicsan and Alvin Sargent, it too often surrenders to the banalities of its genre. For Nuts exemplifies one kind of Hollywood high-mindedness: the "I'm O.K. Because Society Says I'm Not O.K." movie. The protagonist is not insane, merely misunderstood by those who impose rules she refuses to play by. Every time an authority figure declares she is incompetent, her sanity is supposed to be affirmed. This...
...cache of some 200 papers from the Civil War era, many believed to have been stolen from the National Archives. Despite his elegant appearance, Mount admits he has fallen on "hard times" and is living in a Washington rooming house. He has published biographies of John Singer Sargent and other artists, and thus spent considerable time at the Library of Congress and National Archives. Though security is tight at both places, pilfering can go unnoticed. "We are caught between the need to give researchers access to + documents and security," explains Manuscript Librarian David Wigdor. "It doesn't do any good...