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Willen De Kooning or Jackson Pollock--in postwar American art, those were the heavyweight contenders. Pollock's drip paintings took art to a place beyond the brushstroke. The prestidigitations of de Kooning's brush summoned it back again. Even the powerful critic Clement Greenberg, who would turn against de Kooning for his failure to renounce figure painting, had to admit the guy's appeal. "De Kooning really took a whole generation with him," Greenberg once wrote. "Like the flute player of the fairy tale...
...third quarter? - less than expected and half the pace registered in the first six months. Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and other Italian officials called for coordinated intervention by central banks to support the dollar, which briefly dropped to a low of $1.30 against the euro, hurting European exports. Wolfgang Clement, the German Economy Minister, said the European Central Bank should "do its part to calm the situation." But don't expect large-scale international intervention anytime soon; the U.S. shows no signs of being unhappy about the trend. Still, ECB president Jean-Claude Trichet "is caught between a rock...
Jacqueline Bhabha said she and her husband are moving just a few minutes away to the larger house in West Cambridge on Clement Circle, right off Sparks Street, to better accommodate visits from her Indian mother...
...meanwhile in germany ... Busy Signal Economy Minister Wolfgang Clement invited anyone who found the new 16-page welfare benefit claims forms too complicated to give him a ring. Days later, he admitted that his office was "completely paralyzed" by phone callers who were referred to a government hotline. Maybe Clement's staff was having problems completing the forms...
...DIED. CLEMENT (COXSONE) DODD, 72, pioneering producer who helped define ska and reggae and popularize Jamaican music throughout the world; in Kingston, Jamaica. In the 1950s he operated some of the most popular "sound systems"--makeshift turntable and speaker sets that played dance records for partygoers--which helped lay the foundation for hip-hop and DJ culture. He launched several record labels, signing the legendary Bob Marley and the Wailers...