Word: oiled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sympathize with Goldin's subjects instead of consider what she made of them. The real catastrophes of recent years--AIDS, drug deaths, brutal dealings between men and women--have produced a sentimental climate in some parts of the art world. That's the mood in Ross Bleckner's oil-paint gloamings and in the mournful photo assemblages of Mike and Douglas Starn. And it's in the scarlet wallpaper of Goldin's empty hotel rooms and her graveyard bouquets. Is this where all the hard questions end up, in a chapel where our voices are hushed and where grumbling about...
BRUSSELS: Striking workers outraged over the dismissal of the judge investigating a child sex-ring case marched throughout the country Tuesday. Car workers marched to the Brussels Justice Palace as bus drivers, steel workers, railway employees firefighters and oil workers all spontaneously went out on strike. The strikes are in response a Belgian Supreme Court decision to remove investigating judge Jean-Marc Conerotte from the case of convicted child rapist Marc Dutroux. The Court said Conerotte prejudiced himself by attending a charity fundraiser dinner for the families of missing children. Conerotte received national acclaim after his investigators rescued two imprisoned...
...LATEST AND GREATEST Oil Change ensures your computer is running the newest software...
These can be dizzying days for PC novices. By the time they've managed to install the latest software, it's already become yesterday's news, rendered obsolete by even sexier versions. Keeping up with that fast-food pace can become a full-time occupation. But Oil Change, a product that just hit stores from CyberMedia, a firm based in Santa Monica, California ($39.95; 800-721-7824), can take over the job itself. Oil Change works by connecting to a constantly maintained software database, automatically updating your PC with the latest versions and patches. The program indexes all the software...
Will the next Asian war be fought over a few tiny islands? And might it be between the ethnic Chinese of Hong Kong, Taiwan and China on one side and their ancient enemy Japan on the other? The ownership of the potentially oil-rich islands (called Diaoyu by the Chinese and Senkaku by the Japanese) has ignited a grass-roots movement in capitalist Hong Kong, communist China, and among pro-unification forces in Taiwan. This territoriality has been matched by rightist indignation in Japan, which has not fought a war since 1945 but which sent its coast guard...