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...Museum of American Art in New York that continues there through Jan. 28 before moving on to San Francisco and Minneapolis, Minn. It's a show, by the way, that might just as well be called "Big Daddy." For artists seeking a way forward, Picasso was the classic Oedipal father, the man who had to be dealt with, digested and finally overthrown...
...DIED. Friedrich Karl Flick, 79, billionaire German industrialist; in Carinthia, Austria. Flick-whose father was jailed by the Allied War Crimes Tribunal at Nuremberg for using slave labor in munitions and other factories-became famous for an early-1980s scandal over huge donations made to German political parties by managers at the family's conglomerate. The Flick Affair, as it became known, forever linked his name with the issue of shady influences in politics...
People who know Foley have pointed out that his father was a conservative Catholic and an ex-Marine. They note that his political career didn't take off until he joined the G.O.P., whose position on homosexuality is, roughly, "Don't ask, don't tell." But plenty of gay people summon the strength to be honest with conservative fathers. And Foley won his 2004 race, 68% to 32%. "There's a way he could have [come out]," says Joe Solmonese, president of the Human Rights Campaign, a nonpartisan gay group. "It's a very different world...
...Kornberg, the prize meant living up to his father's example: Arthur Kornberg won a Nobel for medicine in 1959. The Kornbergs are in good company--seven other sets of parents and children have won science's highest honor. The most famous was also the most prodigious: Marie and Pierre Curie won in 1903 (Marie won another on her own in 1911); then daughter Irène Joliot-Curie, along with her husband Frédéric Joliot, won in 1935. Who wouldn't pay to get a piece of those genes...
billionaire German industrialist; in Carinthia, Austria. Flick--whose father was jailed by the Allied War Crimes Tribunal at Nuremberg for using slave labor in munitions and other factories--became famous for an early-1980s scandal over huge donations made to German political parties by managers at the family's conglomerate. The Flick Affair, as it became known, forever linked his name with the issue of shady influences in politics...