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...early 1980s Murray was routinely breaking out of the confines of the standard rectangular canvas, going instead for supports shaped like thunderbolts, clouds or shapes-with-no-name that she would combine sometimes into complicated puzzle pieces. Working in a jumped-up palette of citric yellows, Band-Aid pinks, acidic greens and plum purples, she made pictures that were semi-abstract, but full of teasing references to the outside world, like the outlines of shoes and tables. Or two conjoined canvases might take on the shape of a cup and saucer or a storm cloud. And everywhere there were hints...
...subcontinent, but this season's storms have been unusually fierce. Four monsoon depressions, double the usual number, have caused the worst flooding in memory in parts of Pakistan, India, Nepal and Bangladesh. Nearly 800 have died and upwards of 20 million have been forced from their homes; aid agencies are warning that the death toll could rise because the scale of the disaster has overwhelmed efforts to reach stranded villagers with food, drinking water and medicine to combat outbreaks of malaria and dengue fever. Waters were receding in some areas, but forecasters say more downpours...
...about attacking military barracks, and Mexican soldiers, who have a long history of human-rights abuses, are often mistrusted by locals. Officials in both countries expect that when President George W. Bush meets with Calderón in Quebec on Aug. 20-21, the leaders will unveil an antidrug aid package for Mexico totaling at least $500 million, including advanced crime-fighting technologies and Black Hawk helicopters...
...medical front, the U.S. has never been particularly good at prevention. The tack, usually, is to patch people up as they get sick, rather than keeping them from falling ill to start. But no Band-Aid is sufficient to handle a lethal pandemic, which some experts say is inevitable - if not imminent. Whether it's bird flu or some other deadly knock-out germ that eventually sweeps through the country, scientists and public-health researchers are trying to prepare for it now to ensure that everyone has a better chance of survival...
...experiment in color. This time, reality wasn't good enough for the neo-neo-realist. He painted the earth a sludgy gray, and found a sickly yellowish color for the canals, as if they had vomited on themselves. (He also gave Vitti red hair). It was all in aid of showing the already polluted city through the eyes of the schizophrenic wife and mother played by Vitti. "I have to put into the landscape the colors needed," Antonioni said, "to express a certain state of mind...to violate, so to speak, this reality, to adapt it to the purposes...