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...event was humming in the Loeb’s West Lobby. On Oct. 22, the Houghton Mifflin Company sponsored the third annual benefit reading from the 2001 edition of its publication, The Best American Short Stories. The evening benefited PEN (Poets/Playwrights, Essayists, Editors, Novelists) New England, the regional branch of the only worldwide organization of writing professionals, and made for a worthy excuse to put incredible talent on stage. At a reasonable price and with minimal pomp, it proved both an excellent way to support the arts and to enjoy them...
Laura Owens provides the clearest, and most whimsical, example of the connection between abstraction and figuration. In “Untitled” (1999), a monkey sits atop a branch, staring at a bee, which exists in three dimensions as thick gobs of oil paint form the yellow and black body of the bee, while the wings are mere outlines. The work also has more abstract elements when decomposed; the monkey is formed from a single color, almost like a Rorsharch inkblot test except for the details on its face. Most of the canvas remains blank and open; the branch...
...Friday afternoon, no branch of government was left untouched by the scare. The U.S. Supreme Court building closed for environmental testing after anthrax was found in the high court's remote mail facility. A State Department mail handler who does not work near any of the previously investigated sites has been hospitalized with pulmonary anthrax. The CIA announced that it had found a trace amount of anthrax in a mail-handling facility at its headquarters. Across the city, further environmental tests on congressional office buildings revealed more traces of anthrax. And in New York, scientists found anthrax on four letter...
...wanted to branch out. Albert says they wondered, "How come no white actors want to work with us? Damn! Because we're doing black movies." In 1996 they signed a deal with Universal, but "we languished for four years," says Albert, "because I think they were scared to make a movie with us." Even then the two saw From Hell--adapted from the graphic novel by Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell--as a chance to do something unexpected. Universal passed, then the script stalled at New Line before finding a home at Fox. "We jumped on it," says Fox chairman...
...Pashtun (also represented in Pakistan), its ties to archrival India and its disastrous rule of Kabul from 1992 to '96. Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf is blunt: "Their return would mean a return to anarchy and criminal killing." For its part, Iran, whose Muslims belong mainly to the Shi'ite branch of Islam, has backed members of the Northern Alliance representing Afghanistan's Shi'ite minority. On the sidelines of last week's meeting of the Organization of Islamic Conference in Qatar, Iranian Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi conferred with his Pakistani counterpart, Abdul Sattar, and outlined Tehran's minimum requirement...