Word: captiva
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...task of capturing all this energy on a cover was passed to Robert Rauschenberg. The American artist, whose imagistic collages are chock-full of cultural and historical allusions, created the special cover over four intense days and nights in his studio on Florida's Captiva Island. "There's no such thing as power and politics without personalities," says Rauschenberg, "and power and revolution do not exist with hands in pockets. I hoped to get that across in my cover...
...Ellen Mayeron, manager of the waterfront Mucky Duck restaurant on Captiva Island, off southwest Florida's Gulf Coast, on yesterday's end of the official hurricane season. Because of less windy conditions over the Atlantic, just three hurricanes blew in this season, compared with the annual average...
Twenty years ago, asked why he had so many assistants in his studio--by that time he had left New York for Captiva Island in Florida--Rauschenberg replied, "Because it takes away the egotistical loneliness of creation." Then he wryly added, "But the downside is that you have to wake up with an idea that will keep eight people busy for eight hours." It was true enough to be a difficulty: the basis of Rauschenberg's genius as an artist, despite his love of collaboration, has always been his autographic touch, the sense that one sensibility was at work...
Bush, a moderate on abortion before he embraced the Reagan philosophy 12 years ago, cannot switch back. Another reversal would shatter his support among right-wing voters crucial to his re-election. But he needs centrists like Carol Daniels, 56, a former schoolteacher from Captiva, Fla., who says she was "born a Republican and have been a Republican all my life." Daniels hates being a single-issue voter, but she hates Bush's abortion stand even more. "I'll not vote for him," she says firmly...