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With NBC's ratings less than stellar and Dennis Miller already ensconced in the booth at Monday Night Football, it cannot be too long until a network in the U.S. lets loose one of its wags on the Games. The smug mug of Craig Kilborn from CBS's Late Late Show seems to just beg to be dispatched to make light of the kayaking and women's discus in Athens. On the other hand, The Daily Show's Jon Stewart seems more of an archery...
...painting. The ensemble of 27 small paintings in A New Alphabet that together recreate a wall of Guston's Woodstock, N.Y. home circa 1970 neatly represents the range and form of Guston's new vocabulary. Indeed, each painting-of a blank canvas, a nail or coffee mug-constitutes a lexical building block of his radical new language-a language of objects. These are representational units that recur obsessively, in different combinations, in his larger works of later years...
...photo album - Al dressed up as Frankenstein for Halloween, Tipper hanging up laundry as a military housewife - underscored one of the most oddly homey images of the campaign so far: her geeky, endearing habit of snapping pictures from the stage at every campaign event; she even recorded the leering mug of Larry King on CNN Wednesday. Note to the Gore staff, however: You might want to reconsider the symbolism of the candidate's wife publicly trying to capture their moment on the national stage while it lasts...
...Does this mean that it's time to throw out the coffee mug? Not yet, suggest the authors of this paper. While the studies do show an association, they don't exactly prove that drinking large volumes of coffee is a guarantee for developing RA. There are several risk factors that doctors have traditionally used to assess a person's total risk for RA, and they include, smoking, obesity, high blood levels of cholesterol, increasing age and female gender. This study took those factors into account, and after doing so, still found that there was a doubling of the risk...
...scenario is less a plot than a commercialized exploitation of primal material buried none too deep in mankind's collective unconscious and nowadays exploitable worldwide, down to the last plastic McDonald's mug. The hero with a thousand spin-offs...