Max aguilera hellweg biography of abraham
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Unique Portraits Steeped in Mixed Messages of Mass Media Fascination
Internationally recognized Chicago artist Ed Paschke has painted unique visions of diverse American cultural icons for more than 25 years. His subjects have ranged from Chicago strippers, pimps and prostitutes to Marilyn Monroe and Elvis; from Lee Harvey Oswald to Abraham Lincoln.
Often though, his electrified, mask-like portraits, which resonate from bold lines and colors of the highest key, depict anonymous, but not uninteresting people steeped in mixed messages. Appearing similar to electronically generated video or computer screen images, Paschke’s paintings reflect his fascination with the omnipresent mass media, and his concern with its effect on our ability to experience anything directly anymore.
“He’s an ongoing chronicler of certain aspects of our culture,” said Dorothy Goldeen of Dorothy Goldeen Gallery in Santa Monica, which is exhibiting a series of 10 new paintings by Paschke. She began showing his
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The Famous Pictures Collection
Behind the camera: Alan Diaz
Photo Summary: Donato Dalrumple holding Elian Gonzalez in a closet while a federal agent screams at him to hand over Elian
Picture Taken: April 22,
Where: The house of Elian&#;s great-Uncle, Lazaro Gonzalez, Miami, Florida, USA
Thanksgiving day , Sam Ciancio and Donato Dalrumple were enjoying the fishing off Florida’s coast when something caught their eye. Floating in the vatten was what appeared to be an inner tube with a doll attached but right then their lines tugged and they focused on their fishing poles. When Donato’s fish got away and his line went slack he looked igen to the tube. It was then he saw the “doll” move. Screaming at his cousin to bring the boat around he stripped down and dived into the vatten. Safely back in the boat, an exhausted ung boy, that the world finds out was Elian González, promptly fell asleep in Donato Dalrumple’s tattooed arms.
Taking the boy to US soil Sam and Donato we
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Early in her academic career, Charlotte Jacobs, MD, professor emerita of medicine at Stanford, focused her research and writing on solid cancerous tumors. When she later became associate dean, she wrote about medical education and clinical training. Simmering below these professional writing endeavors, however, was a desire to also pursue a different kind of writing.
Her first biography, Henry Kaplan and the Story of Hodgkin's Disease, was published in Her most recent book, Jonas Salk: A Life, was published in the spring. It tells the story of the brilliant and complicated physician who discovered and developed the first vaccine for polio. [An excerpt was published in the summer issue of Stanford Medicine magazine.]
In a recent interview, Jacobs, the Drs. Ben and A. Jess Shenson Professor in the School of Medicine, Emerita, talked with writer Penny Hodgson about her dual careers in medicine and writing.
Q: What originally led you to a side career as a biographer?
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