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...Hollywood's new junior class, several of whom grew up in counterculture families. Thurman's mother was once married to Timothy Leary-who is also, coincidentally, Ryder's godfather. Thurman's father is a highly regarded scholar of Buddhism. Charles Bukowski was a frequent houseguest at the DiCaprios' when Leonardo was growing up in Los Angeles. The actor's best childhood friend was Abbie Hoffman's son. And Sarah Jessica Parker grew up idolizing Cesar Chavez and attending peace marches with her parents...
...recent encyclical, Veritatis splendor -- The Splendor of Truth -- makes it clear that clerics and theologians are bound to a "loyal assent." He has imposed the equivalent of ecclesiastical gag orders on those who, he feels, have challenged church teaching, including Kung, American moral theologian Charles Curran and Brazil's Leonardo Boff, an exponent of Liberation Theology...
...record $30.8 million was paid today for a 72-page Leonardo da Vinci manual by an anonymousauctionbidder today, more than double the amount the book was expected to fetch. The 485-year-old codex contains scientific diagrams on astronomy, geography, geology and hydraulics, including advice on flood control. The work -- sold by Christie's America to a bidder phoning it in -- was acquired for $5.6 million by oil tycoon Armand Hammer in 1980.Post your opinion on theArts & Culturebulletin board...
Though lyrically involved with the Italian past, Twombly seldom quotes directly from its dead artists. An exception is Leonardo, whose temperament -- combining a fastidious eye for minute incident with a pessimistic, even apocalyptic imagination -- evidently intrigues him.The most successful trace is in Leda and the Swan, 1962, which enlarges the turbid vortices of the Deluge studies into a frenzy of scribbles and feathers, sexual and comic at the same time...
Dante (Brian O'Halloran) has the night shift at the Quick Stop convenience store in Leonardo, New Jersey. Bright, dour and put-upon, he wastes or redeems his time by fretting about life -- about everything but his place in it, which he accepts with a readiness that annoys his friend Randal (Jeff Anderson). Clerks is a nothing-much-happens -and-ain't-that-the-big-truth? movie that gets considerable mileage from a couple of white guys, and their friends and customers, sitting around talking...