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Tommy Thompson has his own war room now--though the low-key Health Secretary prefers to think of it as a mere operations center. Whatever it's called, it's a conference room across from his office humming with computers, printers, fax machines and televisions and tended by a team of round-the-clock staff members. It has the look of a place where a war is being waged--just not necessarily one that's being...
...business with a spine-tingling mix of their wildest, most floor-shaking anthems. The songs were intercut by intense live jams that consisted almost entirely of tweaked sirens and ultra-distorted basslines, the occasional cheeky sample (Eminem elicited a small cheer), and divine, slamming beats. Not stopping at mere sound, however, the show boasted a rotating cast of exotically clad vocalists and dancers whose exhortations to the crowd were at once embracing and confrontational, as well as a live drummer who had little discernable purpose other than to add to the tribal vibes. The entire spectacle effectively transformed the upscale...
...connection between abstraction and figuration. In “Untitled” (1999), a monkey sits atop a branch, staring at a bee, which exists in three dimensions as thick gobs of oil paint form the yellow and black body of the bee, while the wings are mere outlines. The work also has more abstract elements when decomposed; the monkey is formed from a single color, almost like a Rorsharch inkblot test except for the details on its face. Most of the canvas remains blank and open; the branch twists unrealistically. Abstract and the real coexist on this canvas with...
...month later, just before shopping period and a mere day before terrorist tragedy hit the tail end of New York, I was getting antsy in a conference room at Atlantic’s New York headquarters. I’d been waiting for half an hour, grimly anticipating the moment when the publicist would appear, frowning, and tell me that there had been some kind of mistake, that I wouldn’t be allotted my hour after...
Last week against Columbia, Love threw for a mere 104 yards. Smith quadrupled that effort earlier this season against New Hampshire, throwing for 417 yards in a 42-38 defeat...