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Whence cometh BECK? An interesting insight to the singer's idiosyncrasies--the inadvisable suits, the inexplicable videos, the impenetrable lyrics--is hanging on the walls of New York City's Thread Waxing Space gallery in an exhibition called "Playing with Matches." Beck's grandfather Al Hansen was a member of Fluxus, a loosely knit group of conceptual artists who engaged in happenings, mostly in the '60s, but who still work today. At the launch of the exhibition in Santa Monica, Calif., in May and in New York City last week, Beck's brother Channing Hansen performed Elegy for the Fluxus...
...reminded of the importance of the mission to which this school has committed itself: to be a place that combines academic excellence and spiritual insight, intellectual acumen and human compassion, analytical rigor and a commitment to justice," Thiemann said...
That was a great special report [TO OUR READERS, Aug. 31]. Your issue provided insight into the internal struggles facing the First Family. The amount of detail was overwhelming. Thanks for getting close to the action. MERRILYNNE HENDERSON Moreno Valley, Calif...
DIED. ALLEN DRURY, 80, former Washington reporter who turned political insight into fictional intrigue when he wrote the 1960 Pulitzer prizewinning novel Advise and Consent; in Tiburon, Calif. The best-selling book drew on Drury's years as a New York Times correspondent and portrayed the machinations surrounding the nomination of a new Secretary of State. He published 18 more novels, most pertaining to the inner workings of the capital...
...funeral, the country's largest privately owned network, NTV, ran a series of programs and discussions that all but canonized Nicholas and endorsed autocracy. His Russia, NTV told its viewers, was a country of "order and prosperity." One young historian argued that Nicholas was a statesman of almost supernatural insight, though he gave himself away when he went on to suggest that Rasputin--the Czarina's "spiritual adviser" whose scandalous reputation did so much to discredit the Czar--was given a raw deal. The guiding logic of the programs seemed to be that if the Bolsheviks hated Nicholas, he must...