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...Tartt, "patiently" is the operative word. As the precocious 28-year-old author of 1992's The Secret History, about a murder by a clique of college intellectuals, she won rave reviews, media adulation and a welcome-wagon of advance and movie-rights money. Then she withdrew to complete a novel that was to be finished in a few years, then a few more years. The lit-world gossips nattered: Was she a one-hit wonder? In hiding? Sophomore-slumped...
...precise series of improbable moves, and no one could see how Kramnik could checkmate it. "There is a difference between playing exciting chess and playing cavalierly," said a disappointed Paschall. On the twenty-seventh move, Kramnik reached out as if he was going to move a piece but suddenly withdrew his hand. He cradled his head and started talking to himself. "He must be very tired, playing this Thing," Swidler commented...
Pillinger withdrew from singles and doubles competition after straining a stomach muscle in her opening match...
...paintbrush?" Between 1951 and 1958 there were no more solo shows, and Newman was included in just one group exhibit. Things only began to look up in 1958 when his third solo show took place. Temkin finds the paintings he made after the early shows, when he withdrew to work in privacy, among the most beautiful. "You try to penetrate the canvas or have it penetrate you," she says. In 1955, Newman was 50 and his finances were shaky. He made one vast painting, Uriel, also in the Tate exhibition, whose verticals are balanced by an expanse of bird...
...party apparatus. "First, we tried to find out who wanted it," McGreevey told TIME. A comedy of errors on Monday and Tuesday, though, prevented a seemless hand off: Bill Bradley, the ex-Senator, unreachable for hours on a vacation out west, declined. Two congressmen first expressed interest and then withdrew. When rumors that a state senator might get the nod, Washington Democrats made it clear they wouldn't fund an unknown. Meanwhile, Frank Lautenberg, the 78-year-old ex Senator, wanted in. Corzine, the reserved Wall Street millionaire, championed Lautenberg throughout the day and McGreevey, a wiry, tough pol, came...