Word: unabashedness
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One of the most prominent and popular of U.S. weavers, Helena Hernmarck, has set herself totally against this modern orthodoxy. Hernmarck weaves an unabashed photorealism, often actually working from photographs. This may sound like kitsch. But when observed and contemplated day in, day out, Hernmarck's transformations of photo images...
Paul Creswick's 1902 classic Robin Hood (Scribners; $18.95) is written in 19th century baroque: "You shall pay no more than ten pieces of gold for your entertainment, excellence," decreed Robin. "Speak I soothly, men of the greenwood?" But it is N.C. Wyeth's 1917 illustrations that carry...
But Susan Cheever is too unblinking, too unabashed as dredging up the most compromising tidbits recorded by her father in his unreleased journals, to ever lose her credibility. Although enormously self-absorbed, the John Cheever we get here made a very positive impact on his daughter: "We had wonderful times...
Strong-willed jurists, pent up together for decades, inevitably feud. Earlier courts were riven by fierce ego and philosophical clashes, like the long-running one between William Douglas, an unabashed activist, and Felix Frankfurter, apostle of "judicial restraint." By comparison, the Burger Court is a pretty tame place. "This court...
Massachusetts has such a reputation for liberal politics that White House Chief of Staff James Baker once jokingly referred to it as a Communist country. But as both parties held primaries last week to nominate candidates for the Senate seat vacated by ailing Democrat Paul Tsongas, there were signs that...