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Lloyd and Fisher replaced scheduled speakers Vladimir Lukin, chair of the foreign affairs committee of the Russian Supreme Soviet, and Valentin Zorkin, head of the Russian constitutional court...
...Vladimir Lukin, a Yeltsin ally in the Russian parliament, told last week's conference, "Vladivostok's biggest secret is that there should be no secrets here." Local citizens applauded vigorously, but the few uniformed officers in attendance scowled in silence...
...Rumania and China took most of the medals, 14 of 30 at stake. The U.S. gathered two, a bronze by Guy Carlton, 30, in the 242-lb. class and a silver by Mario Martinez, 27, in the superheavyweight category. Martinez, a car-rental-agency worker, was bested by Dean Lukin, a millionaire tuna fisherman from Australia. Lukin lifted a total of 909¼ Ibs., topping Martinez by 5½ Ibs. Said the silver medalist: "I did my best. I'm pretty happy...
Latvian-born Sven Lukin, 34, also distorts perspective to reflect the pressures of Manhattan life. Of his grey and pink Squeeze, he explains: "Think of tender flesh squeezed under an environment that is all speed, cement and cars. Grey is an urban color." Squeeze seems to loom above the viewer far larger than its actual eight feet because its vanishing point is situated a foot or so below the painting, in what is known as "worm's-eye perspective." Traditionally, perspective was used to make a painting seem to open a window into the wall; Lukin uses the technique...
...Sven Lukin, 31, a Latvian-born New Yorker, is another art pioneer of top. His zest for contours dates back to his student days at the University of Pennsylvania, where he watched architecture students make models of shaped canvas. Currently he is curling scrollwork-like strips of canvas out into space, as if they were peeled from flat murals...