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...never fully in service to them. He never aimed for the lugubrious swank of Helmut Newton, whose corseted women can look like sale goods in a fancy furniture store. He never settled for the sexual salesmanship of Bruce Weber, whose boys live in a world made of equal parts Ralph Lauren and Leni Riefenstahl...
While attending Harvard, Strauss was an economics concentrator, and he graduated from the University of Virginia Business School in 1987. He is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Gerald R. Strauss of Buffalo, his sister, Anne E. Strauss, and his grandmother, Mrs. Ralph E. Weber, of Palm Beach...
Somehow it seemed wrong to Ralph Flowers to kill all those black bears. Sure, part of his job at the Washington Forest Protection Association was to stop the animals from stripping bark from trees and feeding on the sapwood. Then it occurred to him that the way to a bear's heart was not through the barrel of a gun but through its stomach. So he concocted a recipe of sugar- beet pulp and set out feed troughs in the forests. Immediately the bears began to spare the trees and fill their bellies with Flowers' feast...
...actor and small ensemble of synthesizers, amplified winds and wordless soprano voice, 1000 Airplanes resurrects the hoary genre of the melodrama. As a musical term, melodrama refers to a composition in which one or more actors recite to musical accompaniment. Schubert's world-weary Abschied von der Erde and Ralph Vaughan Williams' radiant An Oxford Elegy are examples...
...fortune made, Bentsen returned to politics in 1970, taking on a fellow Democrat and populist icon, Senator Ralph Yarborough. With the help of the L.B.J.-Connally wing of the party, Bentsen won the primary in a brawl that was messy even by Texas standards. Bentsen linked Yarborough with antiwar demonstrations and ran commercials of the uproar outside the 1968 Democratic Convention to make his point. He labeled Senator Edmund Muskie, who came to campaign for Yarborough, an ultra-liberal. Yarborough kicked up dust as well, calling the Bentsens a family of land frauds and exploiters, a reference to lawsuits that...