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...know what to make of the Japanese tour buses that have begun to stop at their 76-acre campus; Obama's East Asian fans routinely photograph the banyan tree he likely climbed during fifth-grade recesses and surely speculate on which apartment he lived in with his grandparents on Wilder Street across from the school...
...Italy, another old world still coming back to life after World War II, he sifted the rubble for a pictorial language that could reach back much farther, past civilization itself. Like the French artist Jean Dubuffet, he found it in graffiti, a scrawl that felt older and wilder than antiquity. In Twombly's paintings hectic scribbles and smudges of color might share the canvas with a crudely drawn word or phrase that harks back to the classical world - Hérodiade, Leandro - but always dimly, a fading signal, the remnant of a broken order...
...more than a year, Obama relied on conventional means to confront the blogosphere's superheated rumor mill - to little effect. The "fact-check" feature on his website, for instance, only seemed to spawn more, and wilder, rumors. A mention there of Obama's birth certificate spurred National Review Online to demand that he produce it to dispel groundless reports that Obama was actually born in Kenya and therefore would be constitutionally ineligible to be President; that his middle name is not Hussein but Muhammad; and that his mother actually named him Barry. That National Review article in turn became fodder...
...just setting us up for a pronouncement: that whatever Allen's current reputation, years from now people will take a retrospective look at the 40 - some films he's made and proclaim him as part of a holy trinity of movie comedy with Ernst Lubitsch and Billy Wilder...
...their grandmothers' pieces." In his heyday, Grima had stores in Zurich, London, New York, Tokyo and Sydney, and counted a Swinging '60s Princess Margaret and Bond girl Ursula Andress as fans. In the '70s, when his work in textured yellow gold and raw emeralds, sapphires and opals became even wilder, Jacqueline Onassis became a convert. His most significant client, however, was the Queen of England, who still reaches into her jewelry box for old favorites. Last year she chose to wear a striking Grima brooch of rubies and diamonds, created for her in 1966, to read her annual Christmas speech...