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There are two things you have to say about Jackson Pollock: He figured out a way to paint as no one before him ever had, and he was, as a human being, a shambles - drunken, depressed, disloyal and near to moronically inarticulate. The only way to approach his short and miserable life (he died in a possibly suicidal car crash at age 44) is as an insoluble mystery, and that's precisely what Harris, the star, director and co-producer of Pollock, does. The script by Barbara Turner and Susan J. Emshwiller offers no explanation of the painter's dysfunction...
...rest of the country. It's in part a remnant of the conservative Southern Democrats of old and partly the result of Texans seeing themselves as a state apart. As one political analyst told CNN Tuesday night, "Texas Democrats are like Texas Republicans wearing a thin layer of paint." Leadership in both parties bow equally deeply to the twin deities of conservatism: Tax cuts and less government. And certainly Bush's confabs with Speaker Laney, long considered a key broker of bipartisan support for Bush's proposals, have not prepared him for debates with Dick Gephardt or Trent Lott, congressional...
...neighbor," Hance explained, his strategy was to paint Bush as an outsider. It proved to be a successful strategy--enough to overcome Bush's massive campaign warchest, acquired through his father's political ties, and give him a victory of 6 points...
...game saw the return of senior center Melissa Johnson for the Crimson. Harvard was not able to capitalize on Johnson's 11 points and five boards, as it was outscored in the paint by the smaller Rams' frontcourt...
...seem to have done fine. Through 35 head-scratching days, their divisions never got more violent than the things they shouted at the TV. Now they'll be tuning in for the last press conferences of a political and legal fight that splashed read and blue paint all the way up the Supreme Court steps. They were cynical about politics before; now they know how far politics goes. But it wasn't the stuff of revolution then and it won't be now. Unless Jesse "this is Dred Scott" Jackson really catches...