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...This was surely a factor in the rise of the first generation of Abstract Expressionists - the New York School - that included artists such as Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline and Arshile Gorky. In the 1940s and '50s, they all lived not far from one another in a combustible concentration on Manhattan's West Side, in Greenwich Village or just south of there. From their continual friction and cross-pollination, a powerful movement was born...
...University of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa hope they have opened the door to a new way of studying TB and its effects. Megan Murray, an associate professor at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH), co-led the project, which has been ongoing for 15 months. Willem Sturm, the Interim Dean of the Nelson Mandela School of Medicine in South Africa, was the project’s other leader. The project focused on multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) and a strain of extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB) that had recently killed 45 people in KwaZulu-Natal. The collection...
Rugby as a Social Scrum If Vivienne Walt had spoken to a single South African rugby supporter [Sept. 24] she would have realized that they just want their team to win every match it competes in, whether the players on the field are white, black, yellow or pink! Willem du Preez, SOUTH AFRICA...
...warwise soldier tells Chris (Charlie Sheen), who stands in for Stone as the narrator of Platoon. "This ain't your place at all." It is, though, and that is the rite-of-passage tragedy the film describes. For Chris is torn between the conflicting charismata of two sergeants: Elias (Willem Dafoe), a natural jungle fighter, and Barnes (Tom Berenger), a pure-blooded killer. Both men have a nice sense of their power?over themselves, their men and the enemy. Each hates the other, and one of them, Barnes, is dangerously mad. Their examples, and Chris' rage, will forge the young...
...within. But his competition is not just local. Contemporary Chinese art is currently one of the hottest genres anywhere. In the past 19 months Sotheby's has created a stand-alone modern-Chinese-art division, and Christie's showcases the art alongside such modern masters as Andy Warhol and Willem de Kooning. At a Christie's auction in October in New York City, pieces by Chinese painters Li Songsong, Yan Lei and Zhang Xiaogang set record prices. Another Christie's auction in Hong Kong in November broke records again: a 1993 painting by Zhang went for $2.3 million, the most...