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...Andrew Jackson? A pistol mouth, a boxing-glove nose and bullets as eyes. Theodore Roosevelt? Gears for eyes, a light-bulb nose and a coiled-wire mustache. Piven's highly inventive collage portraits are matched with amusingly quirky tidbits about the Presidents (the pugnacious Jackson's penchant for dueling, the busy Roosevelt's bustling energy). Most of the jokes are benign--George W. Bush, a former baseball-team owner, has a hot-dog nose and buns for eyebrows--but Piven also meets darker facts head on: Richard Nixon's face is formed with a tape recorder, and his prominent nose...
Nevada senator Harry Reid's capitol office is decorated--incongruously, given his taciturn demeanor--with large portraits of two fabulously flamboyant Americans, Andrew Jackson and Mark Twain. The Jackson portrait is dynamic, wind whipped, but slightly obligatory. Old Hickory, the first President who was not an aristocrat, was the brawling founder of the modern Democratic Party, and Reid, newly elected Senate minority leader, is now the highest-ranking Democrat in Washington...
...take advantage of his condition. When it was still a mystery, Yanukovych had his top Russian press handler warn voters on TV that if they elected such a sick man, "the very next day Yushchenko will be admitted to hospital." --By Julie Rawe. Reported by Paul Quinn-Judge, Andrew Purvis and Yuri Zarakhovich
...coils of a giant snake. David B. says, "I didn't want at all to do something realistic. I was not interested in making a reconstruction." By taking us to the most fantastic limits of his imagination, David B. has made his family's struggles palpably, powerfully real. --By Andrew Arnold...
...SLEEP LAB: Andrew Sullivan pillow fights apnea...