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...From the establishment, Chris Ware provides another brief chapter in his sporadically printed series about a lonely young woman living in an apartment building. One remarkable page encapsulates the lives of the building's residents, along with a bee, through schematically arranged, interconnecting panels. The book also features "Drill Core Sample," by Gary Panter, the cartoonist's cartoonist since the 1980s. Comprised of one page from a sketchbook done in each of the last 30 years, it offers a fascinating slice of his evolving interest in the constructs of "cartoons." Of the work by relative newcomers, "My Sexual History (Slightly...
...save one brief instant late in the first period last night, Grumet-Morris was unforgiving. He smothered every shot that sailed through the air, and he guarded the crease unflinchingly with his pads, oftentimes blocking several stabbing attempts within a matter of seconds but never taking his eyes off the puck...
...Oslo peace process provided a brief windfall for the Palestinians, bringing Arafat $4 billion in donations from the U.S., the European Union, Japan and sales tax gathered by Israel that was passed on to him. But much of that was wasted or skimmed by corrupt Arafat associates. When a Palestinian Authority audit exposed the corruption in 1997, Arafat ordered future audits to be kept secret...
...Kooning's moment of art-world pre-eminence was brief, from the death of Pollock in 1956 to the early 1960s, when the imperturbable cool of Pop began to make the surplus drama of Abstract Expressionism look dated and overwrought. To refocus his ambitions, he moved to the Hamptons, on the east end of Long Island. But isolation intensified his drinking problem. Whole months could be spent guzzling Johnny Walker Red. The worst bouts sent him to the hospital for weeks at a time. Much of his work from the '60s was inebriated--slack or shrill...
...spectacle of Arafat's last days offered a glimpse of the man he had been reduced to. One of the last images he left to the world--the brief video clip showing the Palestinian leader, shriveled and frail, wearing blue pajamas and a knit cap before he left the West Bank for medical treatment in France--did not reflect the stylings of Yasser Arafat the revolutionary. The stubble-faced Arafat owned civilian clothes, but he donned his few suits and ties only to move around incognito. When he appeared as Arafat, he always wore crisply pressed military khakis, a black...