Word: guttuso
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...newest alternative to HRT has won FDA approval, but for a different condition. It's a drug called gabapentin, okayed in 1993 to treat seizures but commonly used for relief from migraines and chronic pain. In a study of five women taking gabapentin, neurologist Thomas Guttuso Jr. of the University of Rochester reported an 87% reduction in hot-flash frequency. But Guttuso admits his study is too small to be more than just an interesting first step. Besides, gabapentin can have unpleasant side effects; patients taking it have complained of feeling sedated...
...Alexander Calder's finely drawn glass wire twisted into a bird form intriguingly suggested a pigeon in a jato takeoff. Pablo Picasso's heavy-handled vase embossed with a red-and-black cartoon face (Burlesco) was good fun. And Italy's Renato Guttuso. who designed a pitcher shaped like the face of a snarling, shark-toothed buffoon, happily wedded design and medium...
...subject matter was strictly from the Red handbook: miners, child laborers, peasants, and decadent rich folks sunning at Capri. But Guttuso managed to avoid the wooden lifelessness or shrill caricatures of his less talented comrades (see below). The hit of the show was The Dying Hero, an effectively gloomy oil of a man dying on a hospital bed. Although the central figure is realistically proletarian, Guttuso rose above the level of flat political posters with his geometric handling of pillow and sheets, skillfully done in shades of off-white against a violently contrasting red drapery...
...Guttuso, a ruggedly handsome man of 41, concedes that his earlier neo-realistic work left a lot to be desired. But the pictures in the present show are "less rigid, most flexible ... I think my work is becoming less intentional and more natural...
...Guttuso had even thought up an argument for mixing art and politics. Said he: "Art makes propaganda when it is truly art. After all, the Sistine Chapel was a work of propaganda...