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...forget all those personal scandals and early-life traumas to be unearthed and exhibited. What began as a friendly Olympic "Up Close and Personal" focus in the last decade has mutated into a monster. By the end of the women's gymnastics competition, for instance, there must have been at least 10 references to svetlana Boginskaya's "personal tragedy"--her coach's suicide after the 1988 games in Seoul...
...bypassed by such new high-tech systems as the Arizona Stock Exchange, the NASDAQ and now Globex. The N.Y.S.E. petitioned the Securities and Exchange Commission to slow down, if not unplug, some of the networks. Says William Donaldson, chairman of the N.Y.S.E.: "To our competitors, we're the big monster; and it's fun to zap the monster...
...flicker of consciousness to show. In a famous passage, Leonardo da Vinci advised the painter to take inspiration from random pattern, like the mottled stains on an old wall; Guercino seems to have believed this too. One of the drawings in the show, Three Bathers Surprised by a Monster, starts with some random splatters of ink on the blank page; briskly and humorously, with a few minimal strokes, one of these blot clusters is converted into the animal face of a creature with haglike breasts that surges out of a pool to frighten the bathing nymphs...
...that Spalding Gray didn't want to work on his novel, the MONSTER IN A BOX of this well-filmed monologue. It's that he can't resist interruption. So he totes the manuscript with him to Los Angeles (surviving earthquakes and agents), on a fact-finding mission to Nicaragua (seeing one of his party go mad) and to Moscow (enduring an unaccountable vodka shortage). He also deals with aids anxiety and other distractions. Ironic and self-deprecating (his own description), he's neither wildly comic nor deeply dramatic. He's more like a good dinner-table talker, an agreeable...