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...these people had the intent, critically attentive gaze of opera buffs checking out a diva's pitch. "Was that spurt realistic enough?" they seemed to be mentally debating. Was that a clean whack that took off the arm of the papier mache fan? Periodically they moved their heads in a sort of approving nod: good spurt, good whack...
...still keep to Wright's relentless ramp, but now you can also break away at four different levels into the new building and wander the loftlike galleries freely. Gwathmey has opened up the place, clearing away clutter and creating dozens of new architectural moments -- glimpses of Central Park, comfortably arm's-length views of the great ramp itself, details of the Wright building freshly revealed. Gwathmey unabashedly believes that he has unveiled a new and improved Guggenheim. "It's no longer," he says, "a one-liner...
When correspondent Michael Riley became Atlanta bureau chief last year, high on the list of stories he wanted to tackle was a look at one of America's most intractable problems: race hate. His report this week is not the usual arm's-length examination but a rare -- and frightening -- closeup view of hatemongering by white supremacists...
Like a once great slugger emerging from a long slump, George Bush finally pushed one over the bleachers last week. After 10 months of maneuvering to little effect on the recession, the Los Angeles riots and the Rio Earth Summit, Bush won from Boris Yeltsin a breakthrough arms-control deal and engineered the horseshoe-throwing, arm-around-Barbara scenes that remind people of his other up-close-and-personal diplomatic triumphs...
...black hole, a superdense knot of matter whose gravity is so powerful that even light can't escape. Now a photograph taken by the Hubble Space Telescope has convinced them. The picture, released last week, reveals a giant X at the galaxy's center. The scientists think one arm of the X is a massive, doughnut-shaped cloud of dust swirling around the hole. The doughnut is seen edge on, hiding the black hole from view, but two cone-shaped beams of light emitted by hot gas closer in can be seen escaping out the sides. As for the second...