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Lawrence L. Allen Discovery Bay, Hong Kong...
...best new museum building America has seen in years opened last week in San Francisco, amid relentless social fanfare: the city's much awaited-and badly needed-Museum of Modern Art. Since 1935, Bay Area art lovers have had to content themselves with the old SFMOMA, a makeshift affair housed in the Beaux Arts-style War Veterans' Memorial Building and so cramped that the permanent collection had to be taken down whenever a temporary show went up. In 1990 designs for a new building were made public. It would cost $60 million, all in private money, and the architect...
...most beautiful of all early Pollocks, the 1943 Guardians of the Secret. It has good groups of pictures by Clyfford Still and Philip Guston, but strangely enough it is relatively weak where it should be rock solid-in San Francisco art. Most of the top Bay Area names are represented-Wayne Thiebaud, Richard Diebenkorn, Elmer Bischoff, David Park, Manuel Neri, William Wiley and so on-but not always with works of the first quality. The uninitiated visitor would hardly guess how strong a creative center San Francisco has been over the past half-century, or how much of its value...
...Liberals must stop hugging trees and start kicking some ass," says liberal syndicated host Tom Leykis. But even in sympathetic markets, liberals are the kickees. Surely the Bay Area is the Mecca (or, as Rush would say, the Moscow) of the California left. But in San Francisco, KSFO has just dumped all its moderate and liberal talk-show hosts -- including Leykis -- to go to a conservative format featuring Hamblin, Reagan, Emerson and Pat Buchanan. What's the problem with liberals? "They are genetically engineered to not offend anybody," says Tom Tradup, general manager of talk station WLS in Chicago. "People...
...from the start, with both sides sustaining enormous losses. The studies help explain why previous drug therapies have proved to be ineffective, but also suggest new strategies -- a multiple-drug attack against the virus early in the course of the disease, for instance -- that could hold the disease at bay and maybe even defeat...