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Shortly after the premiere of Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest in 1895, the Marquess of Queensbury, rankled by his son's homosexual relationship with Wilde, harassed Wilde in public. Wilde responded by setting in motion a libel suit that would eventually lead to his own conviction for sodomy, then imprisonment and loss of public appreciation of his art. Gross Indecency recreates the trial that shook the creative world, drawing from a number of accounts, including Wilde's lover Lord Alfred Douglas, George Bernard Shaw and Wilde's riotous testimony during the trial itself. Wilde crafts...
...paintings from the years just before Neel died are bold images. In them, Neel arrives at true expression of the individuals she examines, reaching an immediate confrontation with her subjects. One of her last images, "Hartley and Andrew" (1983), depicts her son and grandson. Both father and child are outlined in blue, as was Neel's habit at the time; seated on a stool, they stare not out, but into the viewer. Background is eliminated or, rather, Neel chooses the gessoed canvas for her background, as she does in many of these late works. This is the ultimate demonstration...
Really, weep for that nebulous region of the country between Las Vegas and the Appalachian Mountains. It has produced a fine native son in William Painter Bohlen, morally upright, journalistically sound, but fundamentally misguided in matters of national importance...
...year between high school and college trekking in Chile. William even claimed he made the money for the trip by playing in a sponsored water-polo match, though he reluctantly admitted Dad may have helped. "I chip in all the bloody time," noted Prince Charles, who joined his son at the press conference. Nice try, rich...
CHARGES DROPPED. Against former Indonesian President SUHARTO, 79; in Jakarta. Judges pronounced the ailing ex-strongman medically unfit to face corruption charges. Earlier in the week his youngest son Hutomo ("Tommy") Mandala Putra, 37, was fined $3.5 million and sentenced to 18 months in jail for corruption; Hutomo's lawyers will appeal...