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...against the slate-gray Baltic skyline, the Finnfighter has neither the smooth horizontal lines of a conventional freighter nor the bulk of a passenger ferryboat. It combines elements of both, as if a cargo ship had slowly crunched its stern flat against an iceberg. It's the latest in a new line of ships to roll out of Dry Dock No. 1 in the industrial port city of Gdynia. It's also a rare economic success story to emerge from the tatters of communist rule...
...eschews finely shaded, meticulously detailed, or even accurate drawings in favor of a raw, "unprofessional" look. One panel of "King-Cat Collection" shows a woman stroking the top of a blob. A little flag points to it and reads, "a horse." Cars have only two wheels and look squashed flat. He draws only the outlines of things, and as little as he can get away with to identify the who and where of the scene...
...might as well be calling a bottom in the markets. It's not hard to do when things are this flat and analysts are forecasting an 18% year-over-year drop in Q2 results, the sharpest decline since 1991. But the real question is how long it'll stay that way. That, nobody knows, but the general feeling is it ain't gonna be over anytime soon...
Sometimes the messenger is the problem. The White House touted an event at a park near Birmingham, Ala., last month as an important talk on conservation, but the President gave a flat, disjointed speech that devoted five minutes to the subject. He seemed most interested in getting to his ranch in Crawford, Texas, for a three-day weekend--his sixth visit in less than six months as President. It didn't help that his promise to fully finance the Land and Water Conservation Fund Act was subverted by reports that his budget calls for cuts in a host of other...
...today the hopes of protest and politically irritant art have gone flat. Isms and groups have largely ceased to matter. What count for much more are those stubborn talents to whom the lyrical and the private are likely to be of more value than the collective. To such artists, beauty without cliche is a supreme goal, and there is probably none around who exemplifies this shift better than the sculptor Martin Puryear...