Word: prix
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...1960s to reconcile his growing desire for concrete figuration with his already accomplished style of abstract expressionism. As a respected contemporary of such American masters as Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning, he had won numerous awards, including two Guggenheim Fellowships, a Ford Foundation grant and the prestigious Prix de Rome. Still, something was missing; abstraction was increasingly alien and even boring to him. On his gray canvases of the 1960s, amorphous black head-shapes began to appear, laboring to push, as it were, out of the ether behind them. Then, in 1970, he unveiled a complete change. Inspired...
...genome, given the future of bio-tinkering, I cannot imagine it will be long before the International Olympics Committee faces questions of fascinating and far more complex implication: Forget drugs. Entire Olympic teams might be bio-engineered and compete on their margins of mechanical perfection, like computer-designed Grand Prix cars and racing yachts. Swimmers, for example, engineered with enormous webbed feet and fabulous lung capacity. The new-model C. J. Hunter should be able to put the shot from Sydney to Perth...
...bargain at $160 prix fixe b) One part Cointreau, 18 parts Malibu c) The newest adopted child of Woody Allen and Soon-Yi Previn d) Paraguay's best hope for a medal...
...received the 1989 Prix Europalia and many other international literary honors...
...subsidiary prizes went to more respectable, challenging films, all but two from Asia. Jiang Wen, China's leading actor and rising director, took the second-place Grand Prix for "Devils on the Doorstep," set in a Japanese-occupied village at the end of World War II. Taiwan's Edward Yang was named Best Director for his stately domestic drama, "A One and a Two." The Best Actor prize went to Tong Leung Chiu-wai, as a cuckolded husband considering an affair with lustrous Maggie Cheung in Wong Kar-wai's Hong Kong period romance "In the Mood for Love...