Word: sargent
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...ever find yourself at odds with being from a prominent Democratic family and being married to a Republican? -Valencia Jackson, HOUSTONIt's definitely different to be married to someone from a different political party. It has really taught me to look beyond labels, which is something my dad [Sargent Shriver] was really adamant about. Get rid of all that and look at who the person is, and you're much better...
...really a concentration of the works, and because of this people aren’t as aware of the sculptures.” Moreover, the medium itself does not limit the bounds of Harvard Yard’s art collection. Murals painted by John Singer Sargent adorn the walls of Widener Library’s central stairs. In an effort to commemorate Harvard students who fought and died in World War I, the University commissioned Sargent to create these two large paintings in the fall of 1920. Completed in 1922, these murals, coupled with Memorial Church across the New Yard...
...work published by the Foundation. Francesca Bewer, a HUAM conservator, points to the donation of John Singer Sargent’s materials and tools in the 1920s as a significant gift of a similar nature. Part of the Forbes Collection of Materials of the Artist, the Sargent studio points to a long-standing interest in an artist’s personal materials. Newman destroyed canvases he was dissatisfied with, leaving fragments that were later found in his studio. Mancusi-Ungaro compares the destroyed paintings to rough drafts, noting that many artists would far rather destroy such cast-offs than sell...
Before male feminists were groovy, Richard Graham, onetime deputy to Peace Corps director Sargent Shriver and founding member of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, waged an uphill battle for women's equality. In Washington, where members of Congress joked about sex discrimination and the eeoc ignored it, the ex-Air Force engineer insisted women should be hired for hard labor posts and mothers were "the most stable workers in the labor market." Graham later helped found the National Organization for Women...
...Raimi made his cult rep with the two Evil Dead horror films and the comix-inspired Darkman. But he's gone sensitive before, as in the Kevin Costner baseball drama For Love of the Game. In the last two Spidey films he's teamed with screenwriter Alvin Sargent, who in a 40-year career has scripted such weepies as The Sterile Cuckoo, Love and Pain and the Whole Damn Thing, Bobby Deerfield, Julia, Ordinary People, Dominick and Eugene, White Palace, Anywhere But Here and Unfaithful. The rules for Spider-Man 3 are closer to the ones for those wayward domestic...