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...maximum alert in Jerusalem at the very moment when a bomb planted in a campus cafeteria and detonated by cellular phone killed seven people and wounded 86. And even before the blood had been cleaned away, Hamas warned that Wednesday's carnage was but the first of a salvo of attacks planned to avenge the Gaza strike. Israel isn't sitting back and waiting for the sequel - Defense Minister Benjamin Ben Eliezer immediately authorized retaliatory strikes by the Israeli military, which are expected in the hours ahead. And those, no doubt, will leave Palestinian radicals with more "martyrs" of their...
...first salvo in this war for hearts and minds will come before Blair's plane takes off for Texas, when the British government will issue a detailed dossier about Saddam's secret weapons programs. A draft is now circulating in Whitehall. There is internal debate about how much secret intelligence to divulge, but the document will emphasize how persistently Saddam has tried to obtain weapons of mass destruction (wmds), nuclear bombs in particular. "It's very good," says one official who has seen...
...from the cross. Twelve Electric Chairs (1964-5) are printed over bright hues - orange, pink, jade. Each chair is alone in the room. A sign reads "silence." Like film stars and car-crash victims, these death instruments are observed coldly, as if by an all-seeing deity, says De Salvo: "Nothing is hidden, there is no privacy...
...morbidity and somberness" creeps into his later work, says De Salvo. Though his paintings preserve the beautiful youth of Mick Jagger and Liza Minelli, in his self-portraits Warhol recorded his own hollow eyes, leathery skin and flagrantly artificial hair. De Salvo sees the preoccupations of someone growing older. She admits, though, that he feared death and was terrified of going back into the hospital, having been seriously injured in 1968 when he was shot by an unbalanced feminist...
...frantic social life among the glitterati continued to the end. But De Salvo wanted to avoid "fetishizing the celebrity persona at the expense of looking at the work," preferring to present him as any other painter. Warhol, Pop Art pioneer, didn't live to see his prediction about fame come horribly true. He died unexpectedly in 1987 following a gall-bladder operation - in a hospital. He claimed his work was all surface and described himself as "deeply superficial." But somehow he raised shallowness to new heights...