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...Glenns flew wearily off to London, the contest editors announced that the winner was a house painter who got Glenn to sign a prepaid telegram and sent it on to the Bild-Zeitung. His prize: three glorious, fun-filled days visiting a German rocket institute...
...prestige and power of the U.N. "It has been to me a very inspiring conversation," said the President, who gave the Pope a small vermeil globe as a memento. Paul, who distributed gifts every where he went, gave Johnson a contemporary painting of the resurrected Christ by an Italian painter named Luigi Filocamo...
...gallery of semi-classical parts. Harrison, puncturing the most pontifical utterances with a tongue sharpened for wit, climbs roughshod over his talented hirelings-among them Bramante (Harry Andrews), the architect of St. Peter's, and Raphael (Tomas Milian), who appears to be impersonating a painting, not a painter...
...store window. He went inside and bought it. From that time, the camera "fascinated me, first as a passion, then as an obsession," Stieglitz wrote later. "The camera was waiting for me by predestination and I took to it as a musician takes to a piano or a painter to canvas. I found I was master of the elements, that I could work miracles...
...Stieglitz met the painter Georgia O'Keeffe, whom he married the next year. His portraits of her, 15 of which are exhibited at the Fine Arts, are nothing short of brilliant. His portraits of other people, by comparison, are disappointing. The reason for this disparity is simple: for Stieglitz, the photographic protrait is a part of possessing someone. It begins at birth, continues throughout life and death, and then begins again with the subject's child. Everything is photographed--hands, feet, torsos, moods, emotions. Stieglitz came close to such photographic possession only with his wife...