Word: sydney
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...recent months a retrospective of Fairweather's work, selected by the Australian writer Murray Bail, has been touring Australian museums. Its last stop (through May 7) is at the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney. It contains only 64 paintings. Fairweather's output was tiny; he destroyed or lost much of his work, and in the end about 500 pieces have survived, including drawings-not much for a man who began to paint in the early 1920s. And since he was a very uneven artist, their quality varies widely. He cared absolutely nothing for permanence; he used cheap...
VR.5 is the real standout among these new series in part because it does not succumb to campiness. The show revolves around the treacherous cyber-exploits of Sydney Bloom (Lori Singer), an emotionally deadened young woman who can travel through her computer into a virtual universe in which she can tap into the minds of other people. A genius in a T shirt and Timberlands, Sydney has devised this technology herself, but she cannot control the environments she enters. As a result, she often finds herself in peril. Neverthe-less, she is unable to stay in the real world...
Repressed and solitary in her daytime life, Sydney sheds her sexlessness in her computer-created virtual universe. There she is passionate and vibrant. VR.5 is a science-fiction TV show that Patricia Highsmith might have written. For all its vividly colored effects, it is above all an exploration of the unsolved mysteries of Sydney's interior life. She is haunted by the death of her father, a secretive neurobiologist, and her journeys provide electronically sophisticated psychotherapy. On her road to analysis, however, she encounters a host of very real villains, most of them associated with the Committee, an agency with...
...hours before his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend, Ron Goldman, were murdered on June 12. Earlier, he had said that Simpson appeared "normal" that night. Kaelin said Simpson was also "a little bit upset" because while he had wanted to spend time with his daughter Sydney after her music recital that day, Nicole Simpson had allowed him to see Sydney only briefly. Kaelin said that Simpson was also disturbed because Nicole wore a tight dress to the recital. But Clark failed to get evidence from Kaelin that O.J. had a heated phone conversation with his ex-wife...
...wounded at her home by a gunman; police believe the attack was linked to her report. Says actress Catherine Punch, 27: ``People tend to glamourize criminals and say, `Whoa, they got away with it.' If the police make a mess of things, then the robbers look even better.'' SYDNEY: Public Private Lives Ever since former Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke separated from his wife Hazel, 65, in November, rumors have been flying that he was in love with Blanche d'Alpuget, author of the 1982 biography Robert J. Hawke. Now Hawke, 65, and d'Alpuget, 51, are telling...