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...comes to the fore -- a 19th century Giorgione. As the art historian Robert L. Herbert puts it in his catalog essay, Seurat "wanted to be perceived as a technician of art, and so he borrowed from science some of the signs of its authority, including regularity and clarity of pattern...
...Bush Administration fosters, lawsuits often represent the only way to enforce corporate accountability. As consumer lawyer Linda Lipsen says, "You can't stand Corporate America before a blackboard and have them write 100 times: 'I will not put issues of greed over issues of public safety.' " The cozy pattern of self-regulation among some professional groups, like doctors, only compounds the litigation problem. Legal critic Charles Peters, the editor of the Washington Monthly, argues that this means "there is no effective discipline for misconduct by a physician other than the malpractice suit...
...every aspiring candidate who has his picture taken with his wife puts his sexual history into play. The public looked at Hart's egregious pattern of conduct and, understandably, had qualms about what it revealed about the man who would be President. Hart, after all, flaunted his affairs and taunted the press to expose him. But the specter of the press pursuing the issue of whether Robb got a massage or something more from the former Miss Virginia, as if there were a Pulitzer at stake, makes the public wonder why the reporters aren't off sorting out the savings...
...Fontana/Mercury), which may well be the prize work in this very fine bunch. Brady's solo career as a songwriter began more than a decade ago; before that he had been known as a reinterpreter of traditional Irish music. After his fourth solo record, in 1988, followed the usual pattern -- critical accolades, cult status, stubbornly low profile -- "I decided to take a year off" to work out the key question: "whether I actually wanted to go on making records and trying to have major success in the mainstream. A lot of the songs on Trick or Treat reflect what...
Seeking to relieve the traffic congestion, the billboard company installed more powerful lights to alter the shadows. But the multitude did not disperse: spectators claimed that the new pattern formed the likeness of another Chula Vista girl, murdered five years before...