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...Models for Synthetic Pictures” (1994), which is less objective than his earlier biological drawings, Winters explores geometrical shapes with vivid use of color and relaxed, almost childlike forms. A page of text on Winters’ theory on the components of images describes what element is expressed by each subsequent print. The work maintains the intricacy and complex use of patterning of his early prints, and explores a sense of texture in the colored regions. All strokes are individually visible, reminiscent of an area roughly colored with marker. In “Models” 9, a background...
TONY CARBONETTI, Giuliani's chief of staff: You can tell [Giuliani] is devastated, but he's in his element--surrounded by fire chiefs. He always wants to know how they're going to handle fires...
...think he's on his way to achieving some kind of victory. But the definition of victory in this case is of course quite difficult. If there was one element in that speech that made me nervous, it was the promise of "complete victory" over terrorism. That may in the end be more than can be delivered at an acceptable cost. We may have to live with both the fear of terrorism and terrorism itself into the indefinite future...
...giving states the option of stocking up on potassium iodide for communities near the nation's 103 nuclear power plants. Still, the NRC emphasizes that the drug is not the next Cipro. Says NRC spokesman William Beecher: "It can protect only one part of the body against one radioactive element...
...been characterized by periods of uneasy quiet, punctuated by explosions of mob violence. Hundreds, mostly Muslim, died in an outbreak in May 2000. But the arrival of the 750 Laskar fighters on July 19 this year decisively tilted the balance on the island and introduced a professional military element in their deliberate campaign to sweep Christians, who make up 60% of the region's population, out of an arc of villages surrounding the disputed town of Poso, where the fighting began...