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...only hard part was getting the luminescence on canvas. To that end, Porter used a nearly fluorescent palette of pastel-lime pinks, greens and blues, as well as a special wax-based matte surface in order to capture the illumination he desired. He then explored every facet of interior design and its relationship to the outdoors, his painting always done with an impeccable air of cleanliness and calm spaciousness evident, for example, in the autumn leaves, long shadows and golden afternoon sun of October Interior (1963) or again in a unique look at furniture and the glow of the fireplace...
...home, Interior Secretary James Watt was the man readers loved to hate. An Aug. 23 cover story on Watt and his policies, "Land Sale of the Century," set 268 mostly hostile pens to work. "Watt an obnoxious character behind that repulsive face on the cover!" said one punster. The rest of the Reagan Administration, including the President, was also attacked, and a majority of those who expressed themselves rejected dense pack, Reaganomics, the New Federalism and support for Central American dictatorships. Said one observer: "The Emperor has no clothes, and the Empress has too many...
Despite these moves, several congressional leaders clamored for the sacking of Anne McGill Burford, who was known as Anne Gorsuch until her marriage to Robert Burford, an aide to Interior Department Secretary James Watt, two days before her appearance in Times Beach. But there was no gratis honeymoon period for her on the Hill. Investigators for congressional subcommittees probed charges of political favoritism, conflict of interest and mismanagement at the EPA. They began to focus on Burford's role in overseeing the Superfund, a $1.6 billion program to clean up the nation's worst toxic dumps. Some Administration...
...creaking bureaucracy of its habitual corruption. Since assuming office, he has reshuffled some 20 top officials and summarily dismissed six others. He pointedly chose Crime Buster Geidar Aliyev, 59, former party boss and KGB chief in Azerbaijan, as Deputy Premier. He also fired Leonid Brezhnev's crony and Interior Minister, Nikolai Shchelokov, and replaced him as head of the bribe-prone civil police with his successor at the KGB, General Vitali Fedorchuk...
MARRIED. Anne M. Gorsuch, 40, administrator of the federal Environmental Protection Agency; and Robert F. Burford, 60, director of the Interior Department's Bureau of Land Management; both for the second time; in Washington, D.C. They met in 1977 when both were in the Colorado state legislature...