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Music history is wrought with tales of bands’ demise, evidenced by the VH1 shows that explore their downfall due to drugs, women, creative differences and financial disputes...

Author: By Christopher A. Kukstis, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Dismembering, Remembering the Plan | 2/21/2003 | See Source »

Like the power plant used for the Tate Modern, the existing Blackstone plant is a structure with inherent beauty. On the facade, one sees architecturally significant adornments, towering windows, and decorative wrought iron work. Inside are large, uninterrupted spaces (perfect for oversize contemporary painting and sculpture), with pipes running along the walls and ceiling in an industrial—but aesthetically pleasing—manner. Even the smokestacks coming out the top are striking; the polished stainless steel often glistens in the slanting rays of sunset. A renovation could add other defining elements, such as a stylized bridge across Western...

Author: By Zachary R. Heineman, | Title: The Power of Art? | 2/10/2003 | See Source »

...12th century citadel these days. Your path might still be barred by curly horned cows, spotted pigs or women goatherds. You might still fall victim to silver-tongued shopkeepers who spring from tiny medieval doorways while you gaze, speechless, at magnificent sandstone palaces, ornate Jain temples or the finely wrought manors of the palace ?lite. But now you're less likely to find yourself ankle-deep in what used to be Jaisalmer's main impediment: human waste. Gone are the days when alleyways doubled as communal lavatories and just a whiff of the walled city revealed what travel guides really...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In a Wasteland of Wonders | 1/27/2003 | See Source »

...direction has played up the comedic characters, making them somewhat more slapstick and exaggerated, while making the intense scenes wrought with a bit more pain and anger than is often seen in Fiddler,” she says...

Author: By Julie S. Greenberg, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Classic Tale of Matchmaking and Marriage | 1/9/2003 | See Source »

...months afterward, Watkins faithfully went to work each day. In the absence of any real assignments, she could only bear witness to all that she had wrought, looking on as Enron auctioned off everything down to the sign at its headquarters (price: $44,000) and as the firm's esteemed accountants, Arthur Andersen, went down in their own wave of scandal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sherron Watkins: The Party Crasher | 12/30/2002 | See Source »

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