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...TIME: You, Sam Shepard, are known as a very iconic American writer, good at capturing the American experience. And you, Billy Turner...
...player was almost unimaginable. In 1985, U2 played Live Aid, the Bob Geldof-- organized concert for African famine relief. At the time, it was hailed as a massive success, and in the sense that it got people to briefly engage with another part of the world while watching Tina Turner dance with Mick Jagger, it was. After the concert, Bono and his wife Ali Hewson spent six weeks working at an orphanage in Wello, Ethiopia. The weight of famine, war and corruption--as well as the resentment many capable Africans feel toward uninformed foreigners with messiah complexes--overwhelmed...
Paintings can go hang. Handmade tiles from the London studio of ceramic artists Nita Rege and Bessie Turner bridge the gap between fine art and function. Imprinted with images of everyday objects - knives and forks, faucets, martini glasses - and rendered in one of six pale glazes, the tiles can be applied in volume or in smaller numbers to add a decorative flourish. "I'm fascinated by functionalism, but we approach each piece as an artwork," says Rege. "Some people even frame and hang them." Rege's life on the tiles began after Turner, a fellow graduate in ceramics from Edinburgh...
...note that Ted Turner has nominated Bono. I would like to endorse that. We have met on several occasions, and I have been impressed by his actions. He has been a voice for the poor, for the environment, for peace--and for the emerging global civil society...
...leaning to negative discipline, which is reprimand, suspension, or even revocation,” commissioner and Cambridge Fire Department deputy fire chief Captain Daniel J. Turner said...