“Nancy Reagan stepped
Up her useful ‘Just Say No’
Campaign against drugs....”
A poetic, and characteristically amusing, new twist on a regular series by our resident chronologer.
Angus Trumble is Curator of Paintings and Sculpture at the Yale Center for British Art. His books include A Brief History of the Smile (Basic Books, 2004), and The Finger: A Handbook (Farrar Straus and Giroux, 2010).