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...generation of artists painted what they saw, rejecting abstractions and bucolic panoramas in favor of the edgy cityscapes of the new age. The exhibit opens with a monumental oil and collage by American Tom Wesselmann depicting a towering six-pack of Royal Crown Cola, a fat loaf of Sunbeam bread and a can of Libby's beef stew obscuring a view of Paris' Notre Dame Cathedral. That jarring juxtaposition embodies a fundamental tenet of Pop: that the everyday artifacts of consumer society defined a new aesthetic, stretching traditional conceptions of appropriate subjects and blurring the distinction between high...
...women flagellate and even crucify themselves in dramatic exhibitions of atonement. Scores of fanatics whip their bare backs bloody with rope or re-enact Christ's final journey by dragging huge wooden crosses through the streets before the supplicants are hammered into place and raised aloft under a crown of thorns and above a weeping "Mary." The spectacle is as fascinating as it is repelling. One of the main festivals is on Good Friday at San Fernando, an hour north of Manila. In the capital, hoodlums in the barrio of Tondo leave knives and guns at home for a week...
...Vladimir Guerrero, RF, Expos: Finished among NLs top five in all Triple Crown categories last season 2. Mike Piazza, C, Mets: Gives Mets lethal offensive production from the catcher position. That's value 3. Andruw Jones, CF, Braves: Performed better in 2000 than that center fielder in Cincy...
Dartmouth has had an immensely successful season, winning both the Ivy and ECAC regular season championships. The Big Green set a school record for the second straight year for most wins in a season and defeated Harvard this past weeekend 3-1 to take the ECAC tournament crown as well...
...dour Fed chief has had an awfully nice run. For the last few years, he's been feted as the crown prince of prosperity, treated as though his accountant's mug should be chiseled on Mount Rushmore, and given the ultimate media accolade: a hagiographic book by Bob Woodward...