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...unemployed at age 52, that he began to pour all his time and accumulated skill and experience into his creations: powerful depictions of human relationships--"pictures about the future of life and the struggle we've been through"--wrought from roots, animal carcasses, discarded wire, rope, tin, wood, carpet, plastic and house paint. Despite his compulsion to create, Dial had always been shy about his art. That changed in 1987, when collector Bill Arnett discovered Dial's work and started buying it up. Shows and commissions followed. Now Dial's art sells for tens of thousands of dollars...
After collecting coarse blankets and plastic cups, the guests report to their assigned cells. They're segregated by gender, and the men are led to Unit 3C, where an officer monitors 32 two-person cells from an elevated control center. There are no windows, only small, dim skylights. A concrete racquetball court adjoins the common room, which doubles as a cafeteria, and a visiting room is located on the second floor. Prisoners leave the unit only in case of an emergency...
...exercising CEO persona somewhere on the other side of this megadeal. The only flaw in this picture, frankly, is a fist-size interactive pager that is dancing between Levin's palm and his pocket. The pager chirps from time to time, and Levin pops it from its slate-gray plastic case, uses a thumbwheel to scroll through a few messages and then slips it back into its case. Occasionally, he pokes out a quick message on the device's Chiclet-size keys. Chirp. Pop. Click-click-click. It's almost a Macarena rhythm. 1-2-3-4-5. Lou Gerstner...
...Whether it be Mrs. Pfister walking around with plastic garbage bags cleaning up after us at the Pizza Study Breaks, ....standing at the door for an hour to greet incoming and outgoing students [during dessert socials]... or letting us go crazy at Incestfest and Shakespeare Night, they demonstrate their caring about Kirkland," Lee added...
...Love? The answer to the question poses a dilemma for modern women. Love, a woman who has successfully transformed herself from stripper to grrl-rocker to rock-star widow, and now, in her latest hit movie Man on the Moon, authentic actress, has gone mainstream. Sporting her new post-plastic surgery nose and a heart of gold, Love has come a long way from ripped baby-doll dresses and smeared mascara, baby. But in the process of her transformation from druggie iconoclast to Hollywood hipster, has she betrayed her most fervent fans, young women...