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...peacekeepers are encountering little opposition, although 3,000 angry Aristide supporters demonstrated in front of the U.S. and French embassies last Friday. As Marines on foot and in humvees entered the capital's devastated neighborhood of La Saline, navigating the still smoking street barricades and bloodstained market stalls, the chimeres seemed to have slithered back into the woodwork. "Not one ounce of resistance," said a relieved Marine corporal who had just arrived from Camp Lejeune in North Carolina. "Not like what I'd been seeing on TV." But many Haitians who remember the 1994 invasion seemed dubious of America...
...installations, the show covers two centuries of this circus lineup, as envisioned by 83 artists including Goya, Ensor, Klee, Beckmann, Dix, Picasso, Bonnard, Hopper, Freud, Robert Capa and Diane Arbus. It's a perilous leap from Chardin's delightful The Monkey Painter and Toulouse-Lautrec's bitter yellow La Clownesse Cha-U-Kao to video artist Pierrick Sorin's ad nauseam Pie Fight, but like Paris itself, there is something for just about everyone in this three-ring show. There are few real self-portraits in "The Grand Parade," but the lack should be filled by Moi! Self-Portraits...
Hometown: Baton Rouge, La...
We’ve got the Charles River, Pinnochio’s and La Flamme! What more do you want...
...court in Ravenna, Italy, Western Kentucky University will square off with Mediaset, a TV company controlled by Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. WKU, whose mascot has been the fuzzy-slipper-like BIG RED, right, since 1979, claims that GABIBBO, the mascot for Mediaset's nightly show Striscia la Notizia (Stripping the News), is a clear rip-off, and is suing for $250 million. In support of the claim, Big Red and the kid who plays him are traveling to Italy to do interviews. But are they a match for the Italian blob's charm? Gabibbo had a best-selling album...