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...Italy, and especially in Rome, when he was alive. Other exhibitions have focused on how the artist influenced 17th century painting all over Europe. This one shows the painting that influenced him when he was growing up--and the visual pedantry he had to contend with. Except for Lotto, Tintoretto and Bassano, and some beautiful works by Annibale Carracci, Adam Elsheimer and Guido Reni, most of this is deadwood and of interest mainly to specialists. Moreover, the climactic efforts of Caravaggio's career, like the Beheading of St. John the Baptist in Malta (which must be the most sublimely concrete...
...decrease in U.S.-Soviet tensions achieved as a result of the session would be a campaign lotto prize, one more piece of happy news to include in Reagan's list of reasons for feeling good about America...
...past two decades? The answer is state lotteries, which for three straight months have set record payouts for North America. In July a retired Bronx carpenter won $20 million in the New York State lottery, and in August eight players shared a purse of $24.6 million in the Ohio Lotto. Last week a Chicago printer, Michael Wittkowski, 28, claimed sole possession of a $40 million prize that had built up in the Illinois state lottery...
...prey on the hopes, and wallets, of the poor. "I always felt that it was an insidious way to re-collect our welfare dollars," says Republican State Representative Tony Van Vliet of Oregon. Lottery enthusiasts, however, contend that different games attract different players. New York's high-stakes Lotto seems to be the pick of the upper and middle classes, while three-and four-digit numbers games appeal to a more downscale market. In Arizona, a state-funded study found that lottery regulars are predominantly white males with a median age of 36 and a household income...
...averages $1.2 million a week.) "In lottery operations, you have to keep innovating to be successful," says Douglas Gordon, executive director of the Washington, B.C., lottery, which started in 1982 with an "instant" rub-off card, later added a three-digit numbers game, and last month introduced a Lotto contest...