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EXHIBIT: "JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT...
...exhibition of the works of the late Jean-Michel Basquiat that opened at Manhattan's Whitney Museum of American Art last month is billed as a retrospective. It does cover the artist's working life: about nine years. But since it aims to present the deceased as the black Chatterton of Postmodernism -- the "marvellous boy," cut off in his prime by a drug overdose at the age of 27 -- it more resembles a parody of a funeral rite, performed over a slender talent encased in a sarcophagus grossly too large for it. There had to be room in that...
...unemployment and old age. The plan also included specific family benefits to encourage French couples to begin replenishing the depleted population. Underlying all of this was a profound sense of solidarity, a word still heard in French conversation. "The French social security system provides for solidarity between generations," says Michel Lepinay, author of Social Security: Bankruptcy by Prescription. The programs are also a spur to equality by making the same payments available up and down the economic scale...
Despite its apparent size disadvantage, Tomassoni said the corps is both physical and speedy. In a surprise move, Tomassoni has converted junior forward Michel Breistroff to defense to help bolster the youthful blue-line corps...
...been very impressed with how Michel looks out there in practice," Tomassoni said. "I guess we've been mistaken all along because it looks like his natural position...