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...established the third Monday of January as a federal observance, it bestowed upon King an honor granted to only one other U.S. citizen, George Washington.[*] While an estimated 5 million civilian and military personnel were given this Monday off, the tributes to King began on Jan. 15, his actual birthday, and in some cases before that. From Alaska to Florida, candlelight vigils, religious services, concerts, photo exhibits, readings and teach-ins were held in commemoration. "There is a heightened awareness of him that was not present before the holiday," said King's widow Coretta. "I think it has made greater...
...that iceboxes are irresistible. For some reason probably larger and possibly even more surprising than William Perry, the country just needs the Chicago Bears. One pro football team or another wins most of its games every year, but this season more than last, more than many winters past, the actual football playing has seemed an adjunct to the celebration. Though they have their appealing characters, including the game's regal running back, Walter Payton, the Bears are far from the most comely players in the National Football League. In fact, beginning with a quarterback who cuts his own hair, young...
...left 54 paintings for safekeeping with a Bauhaus friend named Hermann Klumpp. After the war, and for the rest of Feininger's life, the perfidious Klumpp refused to give them back, on the casuistic ground that although Feininger had "intellectual ownership" of the paintings, he, Klumpp, was their "actual physical owner." Moreover, they were in East Germany, whose Communist government refused to surrender them to America. Their ownership had passed to Feininger's wife Julia on his death, and after she died in 1970 an executor of the Feininger estate, Art Lawyer Ralph F. Colin, went into high gear...
Lillian, William Luce's one-woman play that opened on Broadway last week, is not about this actual Lillian Hellman. Luce, who celebrated Emily Dickinson in The Belle of Amherst, culled Hellman's memoirs to put onstage something approximating the way she saw herself. The result is far from objective history. But it works absorbingly as ribald, poignant entertainment. One of the world's great actresses, Zoe Caldwell, enacts the writer's conversations and confessions in a blend of eerily precise impersonation (down to wearing Tea Rose, Hellman's favorite perfume) and voluble, free-spirited performance...
...availability of slides in Chicago playgrounds must be taken very seriously. The nation, once proud of its frontier individualism, has gradually adopted a no-risk mentality based on the belief that if anything bad happens, someone should be made to pay. But as damage awards lose any connection to actual damages and insurance companies flail around anxiously, that someone is turning out to be everyone. --By George J. Church. Reported by Anne Constable/Washington, B. Russell Leavitt/Atlanta and Michael Riley/Los Angeles