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...steel-tube furnishings found their way into the stark spaces and barred enclosures of his paintings. You detect them for the first time in the series of paintings he made from the great Velázquez portrait of Pope Innocent X, in which Bacon's flickering white perimeters form a cage for the Pontiff's impotent fury...
...Pope? With Bacon there's never one answer. His great gift was for conflation, visual and psychological, for compressing multiple possibilities into a single sliding form. From a 19th century photograph by Eadweard Muybridge he could take the squatting silhouette of a man and dissolve it within the outlines of a crouching boy attributed to Michelangelo. He could borrow the eyeglasses from a famous shot of a screaming nurse in Sergei Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin and perch them on a Pope's nose. In the same way, the meaning of his screaming Pontiff in Head VI fluctuates. Trapped...
...luxury not every college can afford. It is the responsibility of institutions with ample resources at their command to familiarize themselves with the educational privileges and pitfalls of every applicant they evaluate. If the SAT must persist as an admissions criterion, it must do so in a deemphasized form. A low SAT score should not preclude an applicant from admission if the applicant’s SAT II subject test scores, AP scores, and high school grades show that the applicant is qualified. Surely, a more holistic admissions process is not too much to ask of universities that pride themselves...
...Treasury initially asked for a virtual blank check in how it would conduct the bailout, including guarantees that no court or other monitors could second-guess their actions. That provision, not surprisingly, has became a major bone of contention in Congress, and it now appears increasingly likely that some form of oversight will be written into the legislation...
...over the reins to his deputy, Najib Razak, even though the government's popularity figures are languishing at a record low. Meanwhile, opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim, whose People's Alliance did surprisingly well in the March elections, boasts that he has lured enough defectors from the governing alliance to form a new government. But despite promising to unveil his new team in mid-September, Anwar hasn't shown the goods yet. As the political standoff heightens, Malaysians can only sit and hope that someone will soon tackle the nation's problems: a growing racial divide, a lagging economy, a judiciary...