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...strike pits some 1,500 members of the United Mine Workers against the A.T. Massey Coal Co. Violence has become almost monotonous. In the latest incident, a midnight explosion last week rocked the three-story brick district headquarters of the U.M.W. in Pikeville, Ky., incidentally shattering a huge portrait of the late union leader John L. Lewis that hung on the wall. The strike has produced one death, hundreds of injuries and more than a thousand episodes of rock throwing, smashed windshields and punctured tires. Gunfire has been commonplace. Snipers killed a nonunion coal-truck driver, Hayes West...
...howling stick figure of The Scream could itself qualify as a self-portrait under the liberating definition employed here by curator Iris Müller-Westermann. "He started painting himself when he was 18, and didn't finish being interested in himself until he died at 80 [in 1944]," she says. "Through self-portraits he developed a pictorial language for emotions and doubts that he could then transfer to more general motifs...
...every seat Take a Hike Destinations to restore your sense of wonder There he is, too, leaning on a railing beneath a blood red sky in Despair (1892), an obvious precursor to The Scream (1893). The howling stick figure of The Scream could itself qualify as a self-portrait under the liberating definition employed here by curator Iris Müller-Westermann. "He started painting himself when he was 18, and didn't finish being interested in himself until he died at 80 [in 1944]," she says. "Through self-portraits he developed a pictorial language for emotions and doubts that...
...turning up, although sometimes not for years. Meanwhile, they can make appearances in surprising places. There's even an art-world in joke in Dr. No, the 1962 film that introduces James Bond. On a wall of the evil doctor's Caribbean hideaway, you can spot Goya's portrait The Duke of Wellington, famously stolen the year before from the National Gallery in London. So far, though, there is no sign of The Scream version taken last year, not even in the movies. --By Richard Lacayo
...Graduate showed the uses to which ANNE BANCROFT, 73, who died last week of uterine cancer, could apply her fierce intelligence and bold sexuality. As the predatory mother figure Mrs. Robinson, Bancroft (though she was only six years older than her co-star Dustin Hoffman) created a Francis Bacon portrait of brains gone to waste, and lust as idle combat...