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Pollock was born in Cody, Wyo., in 1912 but grew up in California. Much ink has been spilled on the question of how Western an artist he was, how affected by the vast and epic landscapes he may or may not have noticed when he was two years old, but the point seems necessarily moot. In any case, he was not, as Europeans like to imagine, at home on the range, especially since Cody in 1912 was a new tract-housing development, not an Old West town. His father was a dud and a drifter who had little...
...everything from pendants to doll clothes. But has the craze gone too far? Mattel Media's Barbie Nail Designer software lets girls design and print nail stickers in an array of colorful patterns. But parents might want to check the price before buying: the software costs just $20, but ink can go fast, and cartridges cost...
...back to Minnesota, and married again -- this time for three months, to local DJ Greg "Thunder" Malban. The Chicago Tribune sniped that she was "a professional bride." Undeterred, Mondale broke into television journalism as an entertainment reporter with WCCO-TV, and started raising getting more than her share of ink in the gossip column of the Minneapolis Star-Tribune -- where she appeared a record 200 times. "There is no doubt," the Star-Trib later wrote, "that she closed plenty of bars, dated high-profile celebrities" -- ex-Eagle Don Henley among them -- "and muscled her way into the limelight...
...rest of us, there is no going back. Boundaries have been broken and precedents set about the personal privacy of public figures that are already down in permanent ink. We may hate that this is so; we may curse every sex scandal to come along for the next generation; but whenever the next one does, it will have a new historical marker: "Not since the Clinton scandal...
Then, with the ink hardly dry on the accords, the French President was calling for bold action. Chirac was especially angry at Karadzic and Mladic that evening because he had just learned that two captive French pilots whom Chirac had got released had been very badly treated during their captivity. Mladic had reportedly told them, "You are my prisoners, and you will be treated as criminals." Clinton too had been concerned for the pilots. According to a senior French military official, there were two secret Franco-American combat search-and-rescue missions to recover them, but the forces were beaten...