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...most convinced antis are James Beck, head of the department of art history at Columbia University; Alexander Eliot, a former art critic of TIME; and Alessandro Conti, a Florentine historian of restoration technique who published a book on the issue. Eliot makes the ridiculous claim that "nearly half of the Sistine ceiling has already been reduced to postcard quality." Beck sees the cleaning as a "dangerous step, taken without real knowledge or adequate cultural background." Eliot compares the cleaning to the shuttle disaster; Beck, to Chernobyl...
...lunettes was put there by Michelangelo himself, in a dark wash of black pigment in glue size, brushed on after the fresco was dry to give more density to the figures and atmosphere to the space. They think this wash is being "indiscriminately" swabbed off along with the dirt. Beck claims that Colalucci and his team, who have done nothing but study the Sistine for the past eight years, have still not studied it enough; and that the cleaning agent, AB-57, though used for cleaning fresco and stone since the early 1970s, is still insufficiently tested. The antis also...
...call George Martin. Martin has retired from producing, but he remains the artistic Svengali in McCartney's life, and in a shrewd bit of psychology, he suggested Nigel Godrich as a possible producer. Godrich is almost 30 years younger than McCartney, and his work with Radiohead (OK Computer) and Beck (Sea Change) has earned him a reputation as the most innovative producer in rock. He is also known for expressing his opinions with the sweetness of barbed wire. "I met with him and said I'd do it," recalls Godrich. "But I said I didn't love...
...stance that it would not deal directly with Pyongyang. Previous talks were marked by bellicose rhetoric from the North, but Hill described the current bilateral discussions as "businesslike." Considering the high stakes involved, "neither Pyongyang nor Washington want to be blamed for having things break down," says Peter Beck, Seoul-based head of the International Crisis Group, an independent think tank. "There is incentive for both sides to at least feign wanting to talk...
...Ryong last week accused Roh's government of using food aid as a political tool. "Do we really want a nuclear-free Korea without the Kim Jong Il regime at the cost of millions of dead?" Won asked. "North Korea is always an ethical quagmire," says Peter Beck, head of the International Crisis Group in Seoul. "Humanitarian aid is one of the only leverage points the Bush Administration and the Roh administration have...