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...Night Falls. Gushed a headline in the tabloid Bild Zeitung: MR. BIG SWEEPS BACK IN TRIUMPH. One of the best-known celebrity artists New York City has produced since Andy Warhol, Schnabel, now 52, shot to youthful fame in the late '70s with his signature "plate paintings," in which broken crockery is embedded on a painted canvas, then painted some more. He was hailed as a "Picasso who can do anything" (Frankfurt Modern Art Museum director Jean Christophe Ammann) and derided as the "Sylvester Stallone" of painting (TIME critic Robert Hughes). But he conquered the market with price tags...
...devotees, or the artist himself. At an opening-night gala, Schnabel complained that "there are so few people interested in art that it's our responsibility to talk it up." He protested that "painting is not Internet friendly. But painting will hold together long after your computers are broken, because of its soul." And he announced, "This is a jungle painting," standing in front of Apathy, an immense 8-m by 6-m work showing a skeletal centaur-like figure leaping across a grease-streaked backdrop. "I was in the Mexican jungle in 1986 and I came across a truck...
Though the strength of his offensive line last season eliminated any need to scramble, O’Hagan proved to any naysayers during his first three seasons that he has both the poise and vision to make the best of any broken play...
...forms of terrorism," Zakayev told TIME shortly before the bombing. "It's a death sentence for our cause if we are associated with terrorism." The one Chechen commander who in the past has admitted ordering similar attacks, Shamil Basayev, has so far been silent. (Maskhadov claims to have broken all links with Basayev and denounces his tactics.) This did not stop loud calls by nationalist politicians for tough new antiterrorist measures, including the expulsion of Chechens from Moscow, declaration of a state of emergency and the lifting of a moratorium on the death penalty. Dmitry Rogozin, a deputy speaker...
...another humorous moment, wide receiver Troy Brown faced the crowd trophy in-hand, removed his dark sunglasses to reveal a black eye and broken nose sustained in Sunday’s game, and yelled “Bingo...