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DIED. JACK HENRY ABBOTT, 58, philosophical criminal whose unsettling letters to Norman Mailer about inmate life were turned into a best-selling book, In the Belly of the Beast; a suicide, by hanging; in his cell in Alden, N.Y., near Buffalo. With Mailer's help, Abbott, serving time for armed robbery and killing an inmate, won parole and a research job in 1981. Six weeks later, he was back in jail after stabbing to death a New York City waiter. He wrote that prisoners "cannot be subdued. Only murdered...
...This week, Ford announced it would produce the sexy beast, for anyone with a spare $100K or more in their just-gotta-have-it fund. While that may seem a little strange for an automaker that plays to a mass market, there's a sound reason behind this. Ford is in desperate financial straits, and they needed a button-presser. The GT40 is a limited production car with a price tag high enough that huge profit margins are guaranteed. Limited ownership. Limited liability...
...This week, Ford announced it would produce the sexy beast, for anyone with a spare $100K or more in their just-gotta-have-it fund...
...makes the situation even worse. The message the holiday sends to most men is to bring a girl flowers and take her out to dinner; the message of the intensely personal advocacy is to stay the hell away from her for fear of the furious beast that seethes within. It’s hard to come up with an equally distasteful association of the sublime and the grotesque; the closest analogue would be if anti-pedophilia activism were centered on Father?...
...year of riot and political upheaval in France. The early rooms fizz with life. Before World War I, artists were experimenting like children with a chemistry set. Here are pieces from the studios of the great and the less-great who splashed the lurid colors of the Fauve (Wild Beast) school onto the reality they lived. André Derain's scarlet-haired Woman in a Chemise of 1906 gazes up from a rumpled bed, while Auguste Chabaud's deserted Hotel Corridor of 1907-8 reveals only a suggestive line of light under a door...