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...collapsed building, André Breton puts on huge spectacles, Marcel Duchamp and Joseph Stella pose together on a sofa, while Tzara, Max Ernst and Jean Arp relax on a Tyrolean holiday. In one photo Sophie Täuber-Arp holds the fanciful Dada Head, 1920, which she constructed; the actual painted sphere is just a few rooms away. Her husband and frequent collaborator, Jean Arp, is seen with a monocle-like disk over his left eye - the Dadaists, fascinated with mechanization and also repelled by it, often used geometric shapes in their art. Another photograph shows Francis Picabia...
...stepped down as head of CSX Corp.--operator of the largest rail network in the eastern U.S.--to take over Treasury, Snow was given a lump-sum pension of $33.2 million. It was based on 44 years of employment at CSX. Unlike most ordinary people, who must work the actual years on which their pension is calculated, Snow was employed just 26 years. The additional 18 years of his CSX employment history were fictional, a gift from the company's board of directors...
...same time corporate executives are paid retirement dollars for years they never worked, hapless employees lose supplemental retirement benefits for a lifetime of actual work. Just ask Betty Moss. She was one of thousands of workers at Polaroid Corp.--the Waltham, Mass., maker of instant cameras and film--who, beginning in 1988, gave up 8% of their salary to underwrite an employee stock-ownership plan, or ESOP. It was created to thwart a corporate takeover and "to provide a retirement benefit" to Polaroid employees to supplement their pension, the company pledged. Alas, it was not to be. Polaroid was slow...
Phoenix tries hard to be a blank slate, but his actual biography is quite juicy. He was born (with that distinctive scar over his lip) in Puerto Rico to parents who were missionaries for the religious cult Children of God. By the time he was 8 years old, the family had moved to Los Angeles, where his mother was a secretary in the office of an NBC casting director, paving the way for Joaquin's debut on the series Seven Brides for Seven Brothers. Phoenix worked consistently until his early teens but quit acting after appearing in Ron Howard...
PERFECT RECIPES FOR HAVING PEOPLE OVER/ PAM ANDERSON From soups to nutty desserts, former Cook's Illustrated editor Anderson provides all you need, with the exception of the actual food, to feed a multitude without requiring a miracle. All the book's 200 party-ready recipes have a minimum of hard-to-find ingredients and are easy to execute. The dishes are crowd pleasers too: luxe macaroni and cheese, coconut shrimp and several variations on a moist but still crispy-skinned roast chicken (her secret is to salt the bird several hours before cooking...