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...also bored with the astringent minimalism of the prior decade. All those no-nonsense Donald Judd boxes--it was only a matter of time before a new generation came along to scribble on blank slates. That was how it felt when Basquiat's bright, hectic canvases started appearing. In Boy and Dog in a Johnnypump, an '82 picture in the Brooklyn show, he applied broad washes of pigment in a way that suggests a cross between Willem de Kooning's surfs of color and any kid's finger paintings. The boy is then built up out of a host...
Koons' passion for leafy produce began when he was a boy. While he was growing up on a self-sustaining farm in Oregon, his chores included saladmaking. Not long after he turned 18, he parlayed that skill into a several-year stint as a chef at the famed Chez Panisse restaurant in Berkeley, Calif., before moving into the produce industry...
...city's suburbs, and for a year they lived in a rented mobile home behind a pickle factory. "He seemed like a normal kid to me, except that he liked to be alone," says Patrick Tahahwah, a family member who lived two doors down from Weise when the boy was 7. In 1997, his father committed suicide. In 1999, his mother was in a car accident that led to major brain damage. Weise was then sent to live with his relatives on the Red Lake reservation. "There wasn't anywhere else for him to go," Tahahwah says. The main town...
...just talking to each other," says Jen Stately, 16, who wears Vans skateboarding sneakers and a metal stud in her lip. "They never talked to him. He was the nicest guy you'd ever want to meet." Among the girls in the group, Weise was known as the rare boy who could talk about his feelings and listen to others. "He was always trying to help other people with their problems," says Marissa White, 14. "When he talked, he made a lot of sense...
...boy growing up in Brighton, Mass., years before recruiting would demand his attention, Welch had already divided his loyalties between Harvard and Boston College. The former had always held the preferred position, though, thanks to equipment manager Chet Stone, who would place a call to the up-and-coming defenseman and a friend inviting the pair to skate when the Bright Hockey Center had open...