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LeBow, 59, makes an unlikely populist hero. He's an '80s-style corporate buccaneer who plundered Western Union, rattled American Brands and took runs at Prime Computer and RJR Nabisco. As head of the Liggett tobacco company, he has contributed to one of America's unhealthiest habits, but last week, ironically, he became the bearer of gifts to those plotting the demise of the cigarette industry. In settling a raft of lawsuits, LeBow agreed to turn over documents that presumably tell what the tobacco execs knew and when they knew...
...suds-and-mayonnaise color and scatty marking of his later work are in sharp contrast to the fierce, free concision of the earlier. Most problematic of all, naturally, are the paintings--currently on view at New York City's Museum of Modern Art--that were done in the '80s, after his mind was completely gone and he had to rely on assistants to do everything but move his arm across the canvas. These spectral, vacuous confections of ribbony paint are among the saddest things ever made by a once major artist...
...contact with family or friends. Some even chose to be castrated. (Law enforcement officials in California reported Friday that about six of the males who committed suicide at Rancho Santa Fe, including Applewhite, had been surgically castrated some time ago.) Nettles died of cancer in 1985. By the late '80s, the cult had lost a slew of members. This was when Applewhite turned to the Internet to gather a new flock. One of the newest converts was Yvonne McCurdy-Hill, a 39-year-old Cincinnati woman. She left behind five children in September to join the cult...
...contact with family or friends. Some even chose to be castrated. (Law enforcement officials in California reported Friday that about six of the males who committed suicide at Rancho Santa Fe, including Applewhite, had been surgically castrated some time ago.) Nettles died of cancer in 1985. By the late '80s, the cult had lost a slew of members. This was when Applewhite turned to the Internet to gather a new flock. One of the newest converts was Yvonne McCurdy-Hill, a 39-year-old Cincinnati woman. She left behind five children in September to join the cult...
...hard to say whether there wasn't enough heaven in Russell's life or simply too much hell. Throughout the 1970s and '80s, Russell may have been America's foremost scholar of Satan, having published five acclaimed tomes with titles such as The Prince of Darkness and Mephistopheles: The Devil in the Modern World. But by the fall of 1987 he was suffering internal torment, compounded by a dreadful event in his personal life (a friend killed her son and then herself). "I was clinically depressed and spiritually in a very dark place," he says. "Fifteen years of studying evil...