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Dates: during 1970-1979
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DRESS GRAY by Lucian K. Truscott IV Doubleday; 489 pages...
...Lucian K. Truscott IV also bears a refulgent military name. His grandfather, who affected pink riding breeches and a scarf of white parachute silk for combat wear, was a World War II general described as a fighter who "out-Pattoned Patton." Author Truscott's father is also a career military man, a West Pointer. Truscott IV, 31, has found a complicated way to deal with the family tradition. He graduated from the Point with a resolutely undistinguished record in 1969, then resigned his commission 13 months later in a row with his superiors. Truscott became a journalist-largely...
Could there be something Freudian about a painter who invites his mother to sit for a portrait not once but more than 1,000 times? Definitely, since the man is Lucian Freud, grandson of the founder of psychoanalysis. An exhibition of Lucian's works, including five oils of his mother Lucie, 82, will open in New York City's Davis & Long gallery on April 4. "My work is purely autobiographical. I work from people that interest me," explains Lucian, 55. The exhibit psyched up a London Sunday Times critic. "You can call it odd or art," he wrote...
...troubles by directing attention to the power behind the scenes: the prestigious and secretive Wall Street investment house of Allen & Co. Inc., which owns approximately 7% of Columbia's stock, or 500,000 shares, worth some $7.2 million, and dominates Columbia's board. The article, which was written by Lucian K. Truscott IV, an aspiring novelist and a freelance journalist, asserted that Allen & Co. was seeking to sell out. Begelman's reinstatement and the condoning of his crimes, charged Truscott, were part of a scheme by Allen & Co. to show that all was well, in order to keep the stock...
Long before the invention of the rocket, man dreamed of hoisting sail and traveling through space in wind-blown ships. In The True History, a tale written in the 2nd century A.D. by the satirist and onetime lawyer, Lucian of Samosata, a ship with a 50-man crew is caught in an Atlantic storm, carried aloft and sent, sail billowing, on a journey to the moon. Later storytellers launched ships with sails on even more fanciful space trips. But none of these fictional voyages was as remarkable as the mission now being planned for NASA by scientists at Pasadena...