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...powers of enchantment or playful sense of humor. In Bacchanale With Red Wine, unsteady hieroglyphs seem woozily afloat on their grape-purple burlap background. In Animals Meet, the body of a cat with a long, thick tail also forms an elephant heading in the opposite direction. A horizontal black brush stroke with two pairs of stick legs turns out to be A Canoe Walking Across Country. There's more than a little humor in Klee's angels too. About 35 of the late works, mostly pencil drawings, are devoted to his unique celestial hierarchy. His are not stereotypic seraphim...
...turned to old photographs and historic texts, all of which confirmed that prior to European settlement, the ponderosa pine forests of the Southwest looked very different, with "every foot...covered with the finest grass," wrote a traveler who passed through the area in the mid-1800s, "and unencumbered with brush wood...
...least I know I won't have to bring my tooth brush [on Friday]," Okhotin joked, referring to his minister's advice before the last hearing that he come prepared to be taken to prison...
...nightlife. Beautiful young girls in short dresses are dancing to techno with their boyfriends at the Water Bar disco in Chinatown on a Saturday night, right next to a group of funky gay Asians, while a more mature Caucasian in black is doing Mick Jagger imitations with a tall, brush-cut young Chinese in baggy jeans. But wander over to Taboo, the must-go, packed-out gay disco on Tanjong Pagar, and you will find a bevy of gay teenagers from every race bopping on a podium in the corner and half the room full of guys with their...
...restitution, documents show. The second time, according to court records, Aulaqi pleaded guilty to soliciting a prostitute and was sentenced to three years' probation, fined $240 and ordered to perform 12 days of community service. Aulaqi - who declined through an intermediary to comment for this story - had another brush with law enforcement when he was interviewed several times by FBI agents investigating 9/11. Says one official: "It was like pullling teeth." But with no evidence of criminal activity, the FBI could not prevent him from leaving the United States...