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...than World War II and was initially applauded in the West, especially when the Russians were among its early victims, was not unrelated to the defensive mimicry. There was something humiliating about the pandering to foreign opinion and the abject way in which native traditions were discarded as old junk. A nativist reaction was bound to come. It always does. In fact, it was already beginning during those early years of intense imitation...
...contemporary still life, relentlessly painted the same enamel bottles and china bowls for decades, using a palette that never wandered more than a shade away from gray. Like Morandi, Ablow is concerned with exploiting a pictorial brand of truth, discovering something universal in the shape of insipid junk...
...White's office has even talked with some who were not so lucky in Clinton's final days, including Michael Milken, the junk-bond pioneer of the high-flying '80s. Milken's patron on the pardon front was Ron Burkle, a generous Democratic donor, but as soon as it became known that Milken, who served nearly two years in prison and paid more than $1 billion in connection with his conviction on six counts of securities fraud, was on the list of potential clemency recipients, loud protests from securities regulators and others apparently doomed the effort. White is presumably trying...
...offering. (BT did have some good news last week; it is reportedly close to selling its Yell online yellow pages in a private sale worth as much as $4 billion.) Another possibility is that the large telecom operators' credit ratings might fall into bbb range - the last bracket before junk-bond status - which would make it more expensive for them to finance future investments. Little wonder, perhaps, that some shareholders are calling for the heads of BT chief Peter Bonfield and Deutsche Telekom boss Ron Sommer...
FLICK DISCS Before you junk your VCR and go totally DVD, be sure to save the glory days captured by your camcorder. To rescue the best footage of your kids' games, recitals and birthday parties, send your tapes to LifeClips.com The company converts a variety of tape formats to DVD for $15 an hour. Digitizing your entire archive can be pricey, but with scene indexing you can, say, skip a missed penalty kick and jump straight to the goal that put your daughter in the family history books...