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...process, Stevenson has cast the usual artistic ideas about Fairweather adrift. While a 1994 retrospective installed the painter in the pantheon of Australian Modernism, "I actually believe this in a way undersells his achievements," says Stevenson, a graduate of Auckland's Elam School. "The story of his life seems somewhere between Gauguin and the hippy movement, and this aspect of his practice is also important and fascinating." Through his research, Stevenson began to see himself in Fairweather. The latter lived his last two decades as a virtual recluse on Queensland's Bribie Island, and the New Zealander, who moved...
...five year crackdown have seen Islamist influence grow. This is manifested in the emergence of suicide bombers, although the Chechens depart from conventional Qaeda practice by using women in this role - a habit learned, perhaps, from the secular nationalists of Sri Lanka's Liberation Tigers of Tamil Elam, the movement that claims authorship of suicide bombing as a terror weapon. Simultaneous attacks on two airliners, of course, is another Qaeda operational signature...
...week with Western bankers. (Putin was on hand at the opening of the Russian-owned Lukoil's first U.S. gas station, in September, in Manhattan.) For the moment, big foreign players are giving him the benefit of the doubt. "We haven't changed our long-term perspective," says Peter Elam Hakansson, who manages a $250 million Russian-stock fund out of Stockholm for East Capital. "It's still one of the most exciting places to invest your money...
DIED. JACK ELAM, 82, accountant turned movie actor who, with a maniacal leer and dead eye (a result of being stuck with a pencil during a boyhood fight) specialized in playing mean hombres in such westerns as High Noon and Once Upon a Time in the West; of congestive heart failure; in Ashland, Ore. Later he showed his comedic skills in the 1969 parody Support Your Local Sheriff...
...DIED. JACK ELAM, 84, character actor who played mean hombres in hundreds of movies and television episodes; in Ashland, Oregon. Elam, who said his rolling, blind left eye was the result of a childhood fight, appeared in several classic westerns, including Rawhide, High Noon and Gunfight at the O.K Corral...