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Once upon a time - only a few years ago, really - a skating rink at dawn bore a certain resemblance to a monastery. The assembled acolytes performed their early devotions, except in this case, they were tracing meticulous patterns on the ice with profound concentration...
...shirtbox-size bombs, delivered by mail or private courier, were packaged in brown cardboard and wrapped with tape. Several bore the return address of an iron-and-metal company in Pennsylvania. In each was a fishing-tackle box. When the latch was opened, it connected an electrical circuit and set off several pounds of dynamite surrounded by shrapnel. One bomb killed Eleanor Fowler, 56, in West Valley, near Buffalo. Another was opened by her husband Robert, 38, at his job in an armored-car garage in nearby Cheektowaga; it killed him and a co-worker. A third blew up Lazore...
...York. It wasn't modern enough for the Museum of Modern Art; and at the Met there was a suspicion that, as one of its senior staff remarked, "Lucian can be wonderful one picture at a time, but a row of 20 could be a bit of a bore." Happily, the museum has now changed its tune and hung some 80 Freuds, the earliest done in 1945, the latest finished this year...
...mildly, a bit of a bore. For Freud, despite his quota of failed pictures (failed, however, by standards to which most living artists don't aspire), is the best realist painter alive. To watch the development of his work -- even in the abbreviated form of one show -- is like watching a wily cock salmon compelled upstream by instinct, against the cataracts of modernist history, following its desires. Most of the major stylistic events in art since 1900, starting with late Cezanne and going on through Cubism to abstraction in its various forms, have had no apparent impact on Freud...
...shift from what were considered some of the stodgiest cars of their era to some of the most curvaceous. His ascent began with two sports cars, the elegant, nimble and fast Dodge Stealth, and the implausibly overpowered V-10 road rocket known as the Viper, both of which bore the now unmistakable Galean lines. His masterwork came in the form of a mainstream product -- the "LH" cars (Eagle Vision, Dodge Intrepid, Chrysler Concorde) that debuted late last year, all of which bear Chrysler's distinctive "cab-forward" look...