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Despite the obvious problem of addiction, almost everyone interviewed reports plans to quit, assuming that it won't be difficult to kick the habit. No one seems to acknowledge that industry wizards made "the patch" for a reason...
...silver Buick Park Avenue. Playing softly on the stereo is his favorite cassette, Leonard Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic's Saint-Saens. For a moment, at least, the melody seems to have transported him away from this place he calls the "killing field," an eerily barren patch of inner-city landscape that glows starkly in his headlights...
...leader of one of the ill-fated groups was Rob Hall, an Everest veteran and a close personal friend of Viesters. As his body froze, Hall managed to contact the IMAX team via radio. In a moment saved from kitschyness by being non-fiction, the IMAX team managed to patch him through to his pregnant wife in New Zealand and listened as he named his first-born before dying. The emotional impact of the tragedy sent the IMAX team back down to base camp for some mental recovery time. Several had thoughts of leaving Nepal without reaching...
...turn into a recognizable image? The question touches on the mystery of Realist painting--how it is, for instance, that when looking close up at a Velasquez you see a flurry of gray-and-pink spots and streaks, and when you move back a couple of feet, that same patch has become a glistening silver embroidery on rose velvet. All of Close's art recalls his fixation on this effect, the brain seeking illusion in pattern, questing for clues: Close will break a face down into round dabs of oil paint (as in Self-Portrait, 1986), or spots of pastel...
...want to do now is sit by myself and cry." Her feelings were mixed, though. "It wasn't a bad experience," she said. "I'd come back. In some ways, it was a relief. I got to find out the whole truth with no holding back." To help patch things up with Chico, which she still thinks is possible, she may accept the show's offer to pay for counseling (only a tiny number of people do so). Guests are not paid, but they get a free trip to Chicago, where the show has its studio, and Nikki enjoyed riding...