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...predecessor and father Kim Il Sung died in 1994, he was regarded outside North Korea as something of a joke--a pampered playboy who, with his Mao-era leisure suits, puffed-up coiffure and shoe lifts, would likely falter in his father's footsteps. Though he's maintained his singular sense of style, Kim has lessened his reputation for kookiness. The first time the outside world got a good look at him, in June 2000 when he summited with South Korean President Kim Dae Jung, he cracked jokes, demonstrated proper Confucian deference to his elder counterpart and showed a clear...
...Loggia dei Lanzi, an allegory of the triumph of Virtue over Cosimo's enemies. Medusa's gore, solidified in bronze streams, is one of the most (literally) bloodcurdling images in all Renaissance art, and the little study for her head, also by Cellini, is a thing of singular melancholy beauty and, so to speak, inwardness. It is a thinking head, not at all the horror-show mask that most Renaissance gorgons were made...
...Raeburn manages to combine murder, drug abuse, rape, torture and comix criticism in the latest installment of his yearly journal "The Imp" (self-published; $20; 112 pp.) With each issue focused on a singular artist or genre - Daniel Clowes, Chris Ware and the religious tracts of Jack T. Chick have each been a subject - this year's book examines Mexico's historietas. Depicting every imaginable perversity these small, square booklets exist in a cultural twilight zone. While immensely popular, they are considered basura (trash) by everyone involved, including the people who make them, and therefore utterly ignored. Like a twisted...
...Loggia dei Lanzi, an allegory of the triumph of Virtue over Cosimo's enemies. Medusa's gore, solidified in bronze streams, is one of the most (literally) bloodcurdling images in all Renaissance art, and the little study for her head, also by Cellini, is a thing of singular melancholy beauty and, so to speak, inwardness. It is a thinking head, not at all the horror-show mask that most Renaissance gorgons were made...
...piece, Hussein, believing Iraq could dominate its larger neighbor, started a bloody eight-year war with Iran that decimated his army and almost caused his government to fall. By 1988, the final year of the war against Iran, Iraq was riven with rebellion; only Hussein’s singular ferocity in dealing with domestic unrest, as exemplified by his murder of thousands of Kurds with poison gas, prevented his dictatorship from falling...