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Here's an insiders' guide to enjoying it all, even if you've got only a short window between meetings. The newest attraction for Chicagoans--and your first stop--is "the Bean": a 66-ft.-long, 110-ton quicksilver blob in Millennium Park, the new $475 million addition to the city's famous museum row. The reflective stainless-steel sculpture (which its British creator, Anish Kapoor, calls Cloud Gate) distorts North Michigan Avenue like a fun-house mirror. Weather permitting, you can check out architect Frank Gehry's dynamic bandshell at the Jay Pritzker Pavilion. (If you need to check...
...materials. I got a bit ahead of myself early on, when I decided that I, too, could imitiate Jackson Pollock—an episode which came to an abrupt halt when my ink splattered not into a beautiful pattern on my paper but rather into a less desirable blob on the shirt of the budding artist standing next to me. I also learned that raspberries are deceptively complicated structures, and I would do my artistic talents too great a compliment to say my repeated sketches, for three grueling hours, of this particular berry resembled a lump...
...Nick Sparrow, managing director of the polling company ICM, urges a little caution, though. Right now, he says, people conflate the E.U., the euro and the constitution (still being negotiated) into "a big blob of Europe," which means it's hard to predict how they'll feel about the constitution after an exhaustive campaign. But still they fear the blob. Cummings, who has been present recently at focus groups testing themes to fight the constitution, says people voice anti-E.U. views spontaneously and with a vehemence that leaves the government little to work with. "The only way Blair wins...
...Mediaset's nightly show Striscia la Notizia (Stripping the News), is a clear rip-off, and is suing for $250 million. In support of the claim, Big Red and the kid who plays him are traveling to Italy to do interviews. But are they a match for the Italian blob's charm? Gabibbo had a best-selling album, and like so many Italians, he's better dressed...
...Brinkley, Seacrest is, in a way, applying for a job that no longer exists. Young listeners have many more influences than they did in the hitmaking days of American Bandstand, and music itself has less of a monopoly on youth culture. Now it is part of an amorphous entertainment blob in which the boundaries between TV, movie and music stardom are fuzzier than ever--a fact best exemplified by reality-TV shows such as Idol and the crossover celebrities they create...