Word: painting
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...flown by the Israeli air force demolished a Palestinian police station in Ramallah in retaliation for the latest terrorist outrage in Jerusalem, U.S. Air Force F-16s bombed Iraqi air defense sites. This came at a time when Saddam Hussein has been doing his utmost, with considerable success, to paint himself as the Arab savior of the Palestinians and his American foes as the as the co-conspirator of the Israelis. Whatever damage the air raids did to Iraqi air defenses may be more than compensated for in the political dividend for Saddam...
...line the stuffy waiting room. Barred windows send blocks of light onto a once white linoleum floor. Although this is a hospital, it smells of neither sterilization fluid nor menthol rub, but of human sweat. Along a dim hallway, young women in all stages of pregnancy wait on more paint-chipped benches. A metal examination table, stirrups down and unused, lies to one side. There is no central air-conditioning...
This point is vividly made in paintings like Thiebaud's Pies, Pies, Pies, 1961. Each of the soft wedges (and how beautifully the squidginess of the oil paint consorts with what it is imitating, the squishiness of the lemon meringue and chocolate!) is very much its own thing. But there are differences of color and shape that save the serried ranks of piedom from monotony, and you are drawn into the small but clear discriminations that make an interesting painting. You end up thanking Thiebaud, in absentia, for reminding you how various and plural the world really...
What Thiebaud especially loves, however, more than food or the memory of food--and perhaps even more than people, at least from the pictorial point of view--is craft. He is a terrific craftsman. Whatever he asks paint to do, it will (almost invariably) do, and come up smiling and looking effortless after it's done. With a very few exceptions, every picture in this show displays a sort of seraphic ease with itself, an unfussed wholeness. The surface is dense, creamy and unctuous, yet it never looks dragged or displays the laborious appearance of palette-knife work...
...rate of infection in Sierra Leone. The World Health Organization officially puts it at 2.99% of the country's 4.7 million people, but an internal who report late last year conceded that this figure was "difficult to believe" and "grossly underestimate[s] the magnitude of the problem." Other studies paint a bleak picture. A 1996 Ministry of Health and Sanitation survey found an 8.6% infection rate among police. By 1997 the rate among pregnant women in urban areas was 7%. In a 1999 recruitment drive the Sierra Leone army tested 1,099 candidates - mostly young men - for HIV. More than...