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...built Grave Digger in 1981 and still drives it whenever his shoulder is attached to his body. He told me he had started out "mudboggin' and tug-o-warrin'" four-wheel drives. I didn't understand most of what Dennis said. After sitting down for a brief conversation, he told me my monster-truck name should be Powder Puff Boy. Then he punched me in the knee...
...information, on a recent afternoon. "Recognize us," he urged. "Look how well we are doing compared to the rest of Somalia." I was interviewing Warande, along with a BBC TV journalist, in the sitting room of his modest house in Hargeisa, capital of the breakaway republic. After a brief discussion, we asked him if we could see his pets, which include four cheetahs and a lion. Sure, said the minister, "I'll show you how I play with them." Outside he let the lion off the leash and began wrestling with it on a small patch of grass. An aide...
Which other artists did he resemble? Not many, it turns out. Miro, in brief flashes. You could think of Westermann's strand of buckeye Surrealism and make him out to be a wood-butchering cousin of Joseph Cornell's, except that he didn't have Cornell's haunted preciousness, his extended nostalgia for a dream Europe. While Cornell was fantasizing about long-dead French courtesans like Cleo de Merode and building mossy palaces for paper owls, Westermann was chopping dovetails, perfect ones at that, and constructing scary, haunting emblems of death, loss and love...
HOSPITALIZED. PRINCE CHARLES, 52, heir to the British throne; after falling off a horse during a charity polo match and suffering a brief bout of unconsciousness; in London. The prince regained consciousness quickly, but was taken to the hospital as a precaution. He was released the next...
That raised the hackles of Canadian Environment Minister David Anderson, who snapped that the Bush-Chretien discussion will be "brief." The Prime Minister "will tell the President that we have a policy of not exporting water, and that, I guess, will be it." Bush's casual comment, though, lent encouragement to a handful of Canadian entrepreneurs who for years have been promoting schemes to export their country's plentiful water. "It's going to happen for sure," says Gerry White, president of McCurdy Enterprises, a real estate and construction firm in Gander, Newfoundland. "Trying to stop people from selling water...