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...poor judgment? Jurors in the trial of former Tyco CEO DENNIS KOZLOWSKI, flanked here by a pair of hired Roman revelers, watched a 21-minute videotape last week of a $2 million birthday party Kozlowski threw for his wife on the Italian island of Sardinia in 2001. Kozlowski, who stuck his firm with half the tab for the blowout, is accused of bilking Tyco out of $600 million. He appears on the tape promising partygoers a week of "eating, drinking...all the things we're best known for." Many trial watchers shared an understandably scandalized reaction: $2 million...
Crowe admits he's not strong enough--or loves acting too much--to let it all die away. And there is a middle ground between being a block of wood and disappearing. But until Crowe finds it, he'll be stuck paddling out to amiability, and telling it to ... you know...
...Less approving was a Coloradan who asked, "Were you trying to suggest that broccoli is a form of foreplay for perky twentysomethings?" Other readers couldn't get past fashion. A Chicagoan quipped, "Maybe your next issue should be about the secrets of dressing smarter. Your model appears to be stuck in the 1980s." Seconding that opinion was a New Yorker who declared, "Ask any woman--no one has worn earrings like that since...
...four prints from On Death, Part One examine death’s randomness, hauntingly capturing episodes of sudden death with terrific contrast between line and tone through etching and aquatint techniques. His two prints from Brahms Fantasies resemble surreal collages of these techniques, with eerie open-mouthed faces stuck onto harps and a powerful background of turbulent waves and sky converging to reflect the chaotic power of the composer’s music...
...only artist to be exhibited in three different media is Franz von Stuck, whose noteworthy contributions in printmaking and painting methods are supplemented with the exhibit’s only sculpture. Titled Amazon, its smooth, dark silhouette outlines a muscular woman atop a wide-eyed horse’s back, her left hand gripping the horse’s mane while her other hand is positioned to fling a pointy spear. The moment is one of everlasting tension, freezing the Amazon’s attack at the brink of its culmination...