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True enough. Some of the work is to painting what the pinata is to sculpture. But the Yale-trained Keene says the idea of his six-week performance/exhibit is to make original art accessible to everyone. With postcards or newspaper photos as models, he uses assembly-line techniques, setting up 32 paintings and going down the line with the same brush stroke, acrylic on plywood, repeating the cycle until he has nearly identical scenes. DON'T BE SHY, says a nearby sign. 3 BUCKS EACH. REAL...
Even less thrilled with her Joy experience is Elaine Corn, the author of, among other works, 365 Ways to Cook Eggs. She received a phone call from Guarnaschelli, she recalls, saying "she wanted me to do the Joy of Cooking chapter on eggs." Corn agreed to the six-week deadline ("Eggs were fresh on my mind") and shelved other projects. "I worked my butt off on this thing," she says, only to find her work rejected by Guarnaschelli. A few weeks ago, Corn learned that she is listed as a contributor in the new Joy, even though she was paid...
...longer. Today Bradford is a poster boy for the barely begun--and some would say doomed--effort to move most welfare clients off the dole and into decent jobs. As a graduate of a six-week welfare-to-work program sponsored by Marriott Corp., Bradford has a foot on the ladder at the company's Crystal Gateway Hotel in Arlington, Va., where he cleans and sets up conference rooms for $7.60 an hour (vs. the current minimum wage of $4.75). He gets health insurance and profit sharing and will be eligible for stock options next year. "In the beginning...
Chad and Howard (Matt Malloy) are two thirtyish corporate types on a six-week assignment in a new city. Howard has been dumped by the fiance he adored. Chad, who tells Howard he too has been abandoned, proposes an elaborate scheme of gender revenge. They will choose a vulnerable woman, begin dating demurely, get her to fall in love. And then drop her. "Let's do it," Chad says. "Let's hurt somebody...
BELFAST, Northern Ireland: Now that the IRA has declared a ceasefire, British and Irish government officials hope to convince Protestant leaders to sit at the bargaining table with Sinn Fein, the IRA's political ally. Talks are set to begin in mid-September, when a six-week verification period intended to test the IRA's commitment to the cease-fire ends. But even if the group keeps its guns under wraps, key pro-British Protestants have said they will not negotiate with Sinn Fein. Protestants from the United Kingdom Unionist Party walked out of the site of the talks...