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Uday and Qusay Hussein hated each other. When they were boys, Uday would torture his younger brother, going so far as to stab him in the thigh and break his ribs and to try to blind him with a burning cigarette stub. Over the course of four decades they would become, apart from their father Saddam, the most feared men in Iraq--responsible for untold numbers of maimings, jailings and murders and, in the case of Uday, rapes as well. The brothers never outgrew their mutual contempt. Qusay loathed Uday's drunken rampages and reprobate lifestyle; Uday railed to friends...
Speaking of a particular stub filled out with handwriting which analysts have identified as Rose’s, he said, “it’s not a laundry list, it’s not a grocery list, it’s a list that shows bets he placed...
...first it was the Senior Soiree. With limited tickets because there simply isn’t enough space for every single senior to bring a date, procrastinators such as myself were unable to procure this highly-valued stub from the Harvard Box Office. I had hoped to have one last dance with my entire class, but the Senior Soiree was only open to those who could snatch up the first few hundred tickets...
...Brace” (1999) is the most jarring and provocative of the works displayed. This enormous painting confronts the viewer with the looming image of what appears to be a grotesque mockery of the female form. With her painfully distended neck, puffy and veiled eyelids, stub-like nose and hairless head, it is difficult to determine whether her expression is one of miserable resignation or of defiant helplessness. Her androgynous body is bloated and motionless. Her paradoxically lush and painterly style enhances the painting’s macabre and moribund tone. The pallid fleshy hues that dominate Saville?...
...week, just over the income limit. But in 1999 Candy heard about CHIP from a social-services agency where she was seeking help to pay for her son's dental care. "It was so easy," says Candy. "All I had to do was show my husband's pay stub...