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Just a couple of years ago, Grubman's word was gold. His "buy" rating on a telecom stock would send investors rushing to own it. But when favorite Grubman stocks like Global Crossing, WorldCom and Winstar began to slide in 2000, so did Grubman's clout. He has come to embody everything that went wrong on Wall Street in the late '90s, as it blended investment advice with investment banking. That mix was long taboo, yet Grubman brazenly played both roles and once boasted that "what used to be a conflict is now a synergy...
...medical commission; in Brussels. A pioneer in the fight against performance enhancing drugs, de Merode spent his 35-year career trying to outwit cheating athletes, and was embroiled in several doping controversies. At the 1988 Seoul Olympics, his committee stripped Canadian athlete Ben Johnson of his 100-meter gold medal after the sprinter tested positive for steroids...
...overcome its preconceived limits. Before ever piercing a canvas, he produced ceramic sculptures so jagged and indented that it's difficult to know where the base of a piece finishes and its twisted, figurative elements begin. The 1947 series entitled Way of the Cross, with its elaborate, twisted, gold-painted forms, is the most obvious connection to the Baroque alluded to in the show's title. Soon after, Fontana began to puncture holes in painted canvases. While an apparent act of rebellion, the stabs were really just a logical outgrowth of his quest to blur the lines between sculpture...
...Frank Frazetta). On top of these pencils Mick Gray's expert inks move from dramatically heavy, but never muddy, to delicately ethereal, as the scene requires. The coloring, by Jeromy Cox, likewise has issue-length themes, from aquatic tones to grey wash to red and ultimately heavenly white and gold. Lastly, yes, even the letting, by Todd Klein, deserves kudos for its clarity and variety...
...Jewel Box” refers to the bar at the far end of the room, whose heavy-handed gold leaf application is supposed to make it “shine like a jewel,” as Hughes puts...