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The Met's and Boston Museum of Fine Arts' "John Singleton Copley in America" (at the Milwaukee Art Museum through Aug. 25) intersperses the art with colonial furniture, silver (including a Paul Revere teapot similar to the one in Copley's famous portrait), and costumed mannequins "suggesting the coherence of Copley's work in the cultural environment of pre-Revolutionary Boston and New York."
The combination of microarray data and cluster analysis to make a genetic portrait of a disease has been used to characterize breast tumors [ 9], to categorize the subtype of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma [ 10], and to identify genes whose expression is associated with mitotic misregulation and human aging [ 11].
Legends about his childhood--of which he may have been the source--include his theft of some kitchen utensils to buy his first colored pencil, and his early portrait of a local rabbi.
Journalist Christopher Dickey's combination memoir and biography of his poet and novelist ( Deliverance ) father, James Dickey, is praised as a "loving, ruthless portrait" (Lance Morrow, Time ). Although he cleaned up his act a couple of years before dying, Dickey Sr. spent much of his life boozing, telling self-aggrandizing tall tales, and openly cheating on his wife.
Traditionally, most scholars have believed there's only one existing portrait of Jane Austen, a rather unflattering sketch by the novelist's sister.