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Even in a serene, sunlit atelier on Paris' Left Bank, the life-size paintings propped against the wall cast a pall of terror. A hulking dog snarls with bared fangs over a naked man lying bloodied and bound on a concrete floor. Naked, hooded bodies lie entangled in a pile. A blindfolded prisoner stands in women's red underwear. The paintings need no titles. The scenes of abuse by U.S. military prison guards in Abu Ghraib, west of Baghdad, are unmistakable, almost as much as the painter's style itself. The Colombian artist Fernando Botero is, by his own admission...
...forever know as Benedict XVI told the piazza this evening that he was just a "simple, humble worker in the vineyard of the Lord." Now he must begin to fill the role of pastor, of leader of the flock, a shepherd who can move the faithful and cast his own large shadow across this grand piazza, this blessed city, and a turbulent world outside...
Fittingly, Potter’s invesment in the film is both literal and financial. According to Potter, the film’s largest source of financing came from the cast and crew taking deferred salaries. She says the financial structuring created “a really joyous atmosphere...
...loyalty Potter recieved from her cast was built on respect for her track record. After a series of smaller projects throughout the 1980s, 1992’s “Orlando,” an adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s novel, brought Potter to the forefront of independent cinema...
Goldner said that over 80 percent of GSEU members who cast ballots voted in favor of strike action at Columbia. Goldner would not reveal how many of GSEU’s more than 1,000 members voted Wednesday...