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...London through May 22. Previously presented in Naples, the exhibit is small; it lacks a few of the most important late paintings. But the 15 it includes, all but one from his years on the run, are the work of a man whose "late phase" came at the height of his powers. Caravaggio refused the idealizing principles of the Renaissance. He used ordinary people as his models and it shows: his come-hither boys dressed as pagan gods have dirty fingernails, his saints have calloused feet and sunburn. As his art evolved he learned to present them in starkly...
...country suspended at the top of the world. Set on the southwestern edge of Iceland, the volcanic landscape is whipped by the North Atlantic winds, which hush everything around them. A sculpture at the entrance to the village depicts a naked man facing a wall of seawater twice his height. There is no movie theater, and many residents never venture to the capital, a 50-min. drive away...
...celebrity judges to arbitrate the proceedings, or at least the finals of the competitions at each height, is akin to sending Hist and Lit sophomore essays to outside evaluators...
...heading for another AIDS epidemic? Not necessarily, as long as the public heeds the wake-up call and reverts to the prevention practices that were strictly followed during the height of the AIDS crisis. Vigilance has since slackened, in part because of the successes of powerful anti-HIV medications. --By Alice Park
...DIED. DICK WEBER, 75, skinny, onetime postal worker who became bowling's biggest star at the height of its popularity in the 1960s; at his home in Florissant, Missouri. Unfailingly polite but a self-described "ham," the Hall of Famer helped found the Professional Bowlers Association (PBA) in 1958 and won 10 of the first 23 PBA tournaments, 26 tour events and six seniors titles. His promotional efforts for the sport included bowling on a Miami beach and aiming for ketchup bottles and lava lamps on David Letterman's late-night TV show...