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...The show’s biggest punch comes from the unsentimental evocation of horrific events: the Kennedy assassination; the car crashes (silkscreened from press shots too gruesome for publication); and the “Tunafish...
...But once she had helped the widow in her later move to New York, she went to work for Robert Kennedy and his wife Ethel — enduring another assassination....
...In a spooky montage from March 1963 — yes, 1963 — the head of Robert Kennedy is shown superimposed on a picture of his elder brother John....
...Warhol poked, joked, jostled Ethel into hundreds of dynamic poses, then chose those with the strongest light/dark contrasts, to make “Ethel Scull Thirty-Six Times”....
...After lunch we go to a tea party at Hickory Hill, Ethel Kennedy’s estate in Virginia, and almost every woman under 36 is in DVF....
...There were flashlights by now, and the button eyes of Ethel Kennedy turned into cinders,” he wrote. “She was slapping a young man and he was saying, ‘Listen lady, I’m hurt too’....
...As he stood on a cooker hob taking pictures of Ethel Kennedy pleading for help for her dying husband, Benson’s only thought, he recalls, was “mess up tomorrow, but don’t mess up today” endlessly repeated...
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