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...dishes up highly imaginative invective, not least toward a character based upon himself. And he creates a complex, interesting romance between his surrogate, played by Brad Davis (who starred in the film Midnight Express), and a New York Times fashion reporter, portrayed with appealing directness and believability by D.W. Moffett. The reporter, who contracts AIDS, speaks the focal line: "There is not a good word to be said for anybody's behavior in this whole mess...
...serious job hunter has turned into a grim professional. Stephanie Moffett, a senior majoring in English and American literature at Harvard, has been hunting for a job in advertising or public relations. She works at three jobs to help pay her way through school, sends out twelve job-query letters a week, and has made so many phone calls that she has switched to Sprint, a system that offers long-distance calls at lower cost. So far she has had no offers. Says she: "Sometimes I'm enthusiastic and sometimes I'm worried. The long term doesn...
...would like to come to the defense of Edwin Meese and his remarks about people who line up for free meals. He did not say all of the people were freeloaders; he said some of them were, and he was right. Rachel N. Moffett Hathaway Pines, Calif...
...urbanity. Paris is unthinkable without Manet; Manet unimaginable without Paris. Both were joined again last spring in a centenary exhibition at the Grand Palais. The retrospective was curated by two art historians, Françoise Cachin, of the Musée d'Orsay in Paris, and Charles Moffett, until recently curator of European paintings at the Metropolitan in New York City. Last week "Manet, 1832-1883" arrived at the Met: 95 paintings, 45 drawings, and prints. It has been shorn of two key paintings, the Olympia and the Déjeuner sur l'Herbe-a defensible loss...
...studying under Thomas Hart Benton at the Art Students League But a after a few years of searching for a novel direction, moving through New York's most sophisticated artistic circles in the process. Porter developed a nostalgic admiration for the straight forward beauties of Impressionism. As Ken worth Moffett, an MFA curator, notes, to Porter "Impressionism was the painterly way of recreating the presence of reality...