Word: joe
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Clinton: If I were just a private citizen, Joe Six-Pack, I would have mixed feelings about not getting a chance to disprove these allegations in court. After having been through what I've been through, I would have wanted to put all my evidence before 12 of my fellow citizens. But I don't have mixed feelings as President, because having the case dismissed and putting this behind us is plainly in the best interest of the country. Every President since George Washington has talked about how the country deserves the President to free himself of his own personal...
...animated release this November: A Bug's Life, created by Steve Jobs' Pixar, the folks who brought the world Toy Story in 1995. When DreamWorks moved the premiere of Prince of Egypt to December to keep it away from A Bug's Life, Disney announced it was moving Mighty Joe Young--a picture starring Bill Paxton and an ape--from this summer to Prince's new date. DreamWorks has its own computer-created insect feature, Antz, coming...
...small photographs. "Large" means enormous--canvases 8 ft. or 9 ft. high, filled with the staring face of someone you probably don't know and who has no special public existence. (All Close's sitters were his friends, mostly artists such as the sculptor Richard Serra or the painter Joe Zucker, none of them well known at the time. He has never done a commissioned portrait.) He began his big faces in the late 1960s, working directly from black-and-white photographs he took himself. The results were very strange. The images weren't "expressive." Their obsession is with fact...
TIES TO MATCH To raise funds for the V Foundation for Cancer Research, the Stonehenge menswear company turned some sketches, bottom, from sports celebrities (Jerry Rice, Dick Vitale, Lesley Visser, Joe Theismann and others) into tie patterns, top. Can you match the artist to the sketch to the pattern...
...Philip Morris' $72 billion in revenues came from selling cigarettes abroad--712 billion of them. "The West got the Russians out and the Marlboro Man in," sighs Witold Zatonski, a leader in Poland's anti-smoking crusade. In Warsaw's streets, signs for L&M tout the "American way." Joe Camel, banned in Boston, boogies in Buenos Aires; the Marlboro Man rides on in Taiwan. One target of overseas advertising: women, who represent only 5% of the world's smokers...