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...eccentrics. But since deinstitutionalization of mental patients in the 1960s, when thousands were released from sometimes abusive institutions, they have become Chief Huff's business. When they threaten themselves or somebody else, he holds them until there's a place at Mississippi State Hospital, two hours north in Whitfield, where they typically get treated for 21 days, only to find themselves back in Chief Huff's care. "If somebody goes off their medication and slaps their mama or they run around the yard naked," says Huff, "it's the police who get called to deal with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Natchez, Miss.: The Chief and His Ward | 7/10/2000 | See Source »

...length life--and at last she can be. Milestone Films has just reissued spiffy video restorations of six of Pickford's best films, made between 1917 and 1927. Mary Pickford Rediscovered (Abrams; 256 pages; $39.95), an eloquent appreciation by silent-film historian Kevin Brownlow, joins a superb biography, Eileen Whitfield's Mary Pickford: The Woman Who Made the Movies (University Press of Kentucky; 416 pages; $25), in bringing the actress alive on the page. Many of the Brownlow book's photos--evocations of an era that are jaw-droppingly gorgeous in their clarity and power--are now on display...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The First Movie Star | 6/28/1999 | See Source »

Esther K. Whitfield, a student in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS), said Zalacain's purpose is "to fill a gap in student publications," by serving as a multilingual collection of articles and creative pieces concerning Hispanic and Latin American society and culture...

Author: By Joseph P. Chase, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Hispanic, Latin American Magazine to Debut | 3/19/1999 | See Source »

Esther K. Whitfield, a student in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS), said Zalacain's purpose is "to fill a gap in student publications," by serving as a multilingual collection of articles and creative pieces concerning Hispanic and Latin American society and culture...

Author: By Joseph P.chase, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Zalacain to Join Campus Stacks | 3/19/1999 | See Source »

...dismissed his art as "a potpourri of indecision"--have often made the mistake of treating Bonnard as a mere hedonist, with his beautiful color and apparent lack of conceptual underpinning. In this they have been wrong. There was nothing stupid or foolishly pleasurable about Bonnard's work. But Whitfield is right to see Bonnard as an elegiac artist: "He is not a painter of pleasure. He is a painter of the effervescence of pleasure and the disappearance of pleasure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Bonnard: A Shimmer Of Hints | 8/31/1998 | See Source »

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