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...depend onCruz's influence in her son's life. "Remy wouldcome and sit down with Jorge and tell him how boysgrow up and change. He'd call and ask Jorge if hewanted to go for a walk, and Jorge would call himup if he had any school trouble," says Ada N.Palmerin...
Oklahoma has a 7.8% unemployment rate, and last month's annual state fair in the town of Ada attracted a record 9,800 job seekers, more than double last year's turnout. Phillips Petroleum, based in Bartlesville, Okla., last week said that it will soon lay off between 2,000 and 2,500 employees, up to 9.4% of its total work force. Says Kerry Malone, editor of an Oklahoma oil-industry publication: "No one is jumping out of windows yet, but they're looking at the ledges...
...pearly or tanned mask of flat paint with schematic shading, great swacking eyelashes and lipstick-colored lips: it is the face of advertising, the size of an image on a '50s highway billboard shifted into the context of domesticity. Much of the time the face belongs to his wife Ada, whose liquid brown, slightly melancholy eyes and handsomely curved nose recur in image after image, making her one of the most pervasive "presences" in American art since Marilyn Monroe. Ada makes an early appearance in a black sweater, with the characteristic level stare, in 1957; by 1972, in Blue Umbrella...
...building is remarkable for the creative virtuosity with which its functions are accommodated while suggesting a monumentality that belies actual dimensions," a recent issue of Time magazine quoted Ada Louise Huxtable...
...entered high school, he was dipping his way through seven to ten cans a week. Then in 1983, his senior year, Marsee developed a painful sore on his tongue. It refused to heal, and a biopsy showed it was malignant. Over the next six months, the teenager, from Ada, Okla., endured four operations, progressively losing parts of his tongue, throat and jaw. Neither the surgery nor searing radiation treatments contained the cancer. In February 1984, the boy voted "most valuable athlete" of his class died, a disfigured and skeletal wraith...