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This is the rare exhibition at which visitors are actually permitted to run their hands along the sculpture. Since Moore's swelling forms fairly beg to be touched, on a busy afternoon Kew can look like an artworld petting zoo. He's still a crowd favorite. But even before he died in 1986, at the age of 88, Moore's reputation had its ups and downs. There was a time when he symbolized modern art for a whole generation. In the years right after World War II, his work epitomized a kind of modernist humanism for an era that...
...psychologically persuasive argument is simply having the largest group in the room, Bender says. "People want to be with a winner - the person who is most electable. 'Ooh, large groups, they're electable' - that's not a rare thought...
...party in Iowa has already come and gone: Over the past month, presidential hopefuls have paraded a Who's Who of Hollywood celebrities through the state - from Oprah Winfrey to Kevin Bacon and Tim Robbins - hoping to draw crowds and make their case. Iowans have delighted in getting the rare glimpse of a favorite star or scoring an autograph, but come Dec. 31, three nights before the caucuses, the star wattage will have dimmed and most candidates will be earnestly glad-handing, rather than gamboling about...
Benazir Bhutto navigated through personal as well as political turmoils that were far more intense than most of us can imagine. Over the years, on those rare occasions when we?d meet and reminisce, I?d notice how the features of her face had hardened a bit, as had the intensity of her stare when she talked to you. But she never lost the warmth in that very big smile...
...plan by Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni is approved. Last year, Museveni ordered a study into the feasibility of clearing 7,000 hectares (17,000 acres) of the forest after a sugarcane company applied for permission to expand its farm. The study concluded that the sugarcane plan endangers rare trees and birds in the 30,000-hectare forest. At risk are 218 species of butterflies, 312 plant species and 315 bird species, including nine found nowhere else in the world...