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...period of his life, Homer started to paint scenes from the small fishing town where he lived. This phase produced some of his famous seascapes, such as "The Fog Warning," which shows a fisherman riding a mountainous wave, his head turned to listen to the foghorn. This painting, and other late works like "The Fox Hunt," emphasize the weakness of man when compared to America's majestic natural environment...
...ANOTHER WARM EVENING ON ST. Kitts, and the customers gather at Fisherman's Wharf to drink Carib beer, eat lobster tails and listen to the pulsing beat of soca music. Outside, crickets chirp and waves murmur on the beach. The air is soft, the breeze sweet. It's hard to imagine a cozier, more peaceful spot to unwind from winter's onslaught, which explains why every year at this time thousands of sun-starved American and European tourists migrate to St. Kitts by plane and cruise ship. Most of them are unaware that the sleepy little isle also accommodates...
...Fisherman's Wharf the locals can talk of nothing else. "For the first time, we woke up and found there were drug murders," says a businessman. "This kind of thing isn't supposed to happen on a little island like St. Kitts." No it isn't, not on St. Kitts or any of the other outcroppings of paradise that fleck the Caribbean. Yet the islands now play a major role in the international drug trade, with all its attendant corruption and violence...
...Freud, composer Israel Citkowitz and poet--drinking buddy Robert Lowell; of cancer; in Manhattan. DIED. MCLEAN STEVENSON, 66, actor; of a heart attack; in Tarzana, California. Stevenson starred in the first three seasons of the '70s television hit M*A*S*H as Lieut. Colonel Henry Blake, a fumbling fisherman-out-of-water who ruled over the blood and irony of an Army hospital during the Korean...
...dispute that has simmered for nearly a century. The rocky little islands (called Tok-do by Koreans and Takeshima by the Japanese) 150 miles from each the coasts of both countries are not significant in themselves, but recognized ownership of the islets -- now inhabited by a lone South Korean fisherman and a small South Korean military force -- hold the key to uncontested exploitation of the rich natural resources thought to surround the island. Both Japan and Korea claimed exclusive rights to the resources today but did not mention the islands in an effort to postpone a territorial dispute...