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...adds, saying that in the past month there have been two kidnappings on her street, despite a police presence. "Security in this town is a joke. The Taliban are talked about incessantly, but no one talks about this stuff - this is the real reason Afghanistan can't catch its breath, not the insurgency, but the relentless and unanswered spate of criminal activity and corruption...
...Just look at the big, protuberant bulbs of canvas that she used so often. They hark back simultaneously to the biomorphic swellings of Arshile Gorky and Miro and to comic strip thought balloons - Surrealist fantasy inflated by the breath of Donald Duck. And by that means she offered a reminder that there's a slip-sliding dreamworld shared by Popeye and Dali - and by us, in our innermost moments - where all shapes are easily shifted...
Everything becomes curiously inverted when you're five miles above the sea. Children, on the 18 1/2 hour flight from Los Angeles to Singapore, become the very opposite of a breath of fresh air. Home becomes the place you hardly recognize (while that foreign airport comes to seem very much like home). Night becomes the time when you're wide awake. During my two days in California, I try to avoid jet lag by getting up at noon and doing most of my work while everyone else is sleeping...
...fight - which might have been made to prove Alfred Hitchcock's thesis that killing a man is damn hard work - but I was too excited to take notes. The battle is as long as it is ferocious, and in the audience I saw the movie with, nobody took a breath until it was over. Then they exhaled in a noise that exploded into a cheer...
...Wynn Las Vegas, where champagne is flowing freely and folks are beginning to loosen up after a cerebral day of presentations. Can this be the same person whose talk on buying farmland in Argentina, Brazil and the Midwest was intimidating in its attention to detail? In one breath she's discussing how the price per acre for Iowa farmland is not far from its nominal highs reached in 1973; in another she's recounting her early professional life in Geneva and how much fun she had. She seems almost normal...