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Laura Owens provides the clearest, and most whimsical, example of the connection between abstraction and figuration. In “Untitled” (1999), a monkey sits atop a branch, staring at a bee, which exists in three dimensions as thick gobs of oil paint form the yellow and black body of the bee, while the wings are mere outlines. The work also has more abstract elements when decomposed; the monkey is formed from a single color, almost like a Rorsharch inkblot test except for the details on its face. Most of the canvas remains blank and open; the branch...
...President Bush may think he's as thick as thieves with his pal Vladimir Putin, but hopefully someone at the White House is reading the English edition of Pravda. The erstwhile communist mouthpiece reports that Russia's generals want to send troops back into Afghanistan, in the hope of backing up their Tajik allies against U.S.-backed Uzbeks in the battle for supremacy among rival factions of the Northern Alliance. Russia wants to restore the Tajik-led government overthrown by the Taliban in 1996. "Pakistan is against such development of the events, as well the U.S.A., due to the efforts...
...when studios like Disney rely on computer graphics. With each film he creates a complete and entirely fresh world. "What's thrilling for me is to break down my own style, to destroy expectations of what a movie or what animation should be," he says, his eyes intense behind thick, black-rimmed glasses...
...that its 22 Granit cruise missiles will accidentally detonate. Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic for crimes during the war in Croatia. The indictment cites 32 charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity during the "ethnic cleansing" of Croatia between August 1991 and June 1992. ITALY Milan Runway Crash In thick fog at Milan?s Linate Airport, a Cessna light aircraft strayed into the path of an accelerating Scandinavian Airlines System passenger jet, which crashed into a baggage hangar and burst into flames. The conflagration, which claimed 118 lives, was Italy?s worst civil aviation accident. According to recordings of conversations...
...Another concept percolating in Washington would provide a "North American security zone" - a thick legal and physical barrier drawn around the continent that would include our Canadian and Mexican neighbors, and would fundamentally change America's concept of borders. Whether we're ready to go that far remains to be seen...