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...comic ballerinas. But there's no humor here. His 48 paintings and drawings of Abu Ghraib have a haunting grimness that "came out of the heart," Botero told TIME. On a flight from Bogotá to Paris last November, Botero saw an article on the abuses and was inspired to pull out his sketchbook. "I began drawing immediately, and when I got to Paris, I kept going," he says. Botero, 73, says artists have for too long abandoned warfare to photojournalists. Picasso's Guernica became the most lasting image of the Spanish Civil War, yet there is no great art depicting...
...home in Phoenix. "Then the rain started, very heavy. It became so dark you couldn't even see out the windows. The ride got rougher and rougher. It seemed like there was something on top of the plane, pushing it to the ground. The pilot tried to pull out of it. The speed of the engines increased. We started rocking back and forth. Then we were tossed all around. I saw an orange streak coming toward me on the left side of the floor. I thought we were going to explode. At that point, I said, 'Well...
...stroll to the archery field, where Rick McKinney and Darrell Pace, the two best archers in the world, are shooting at the same target 50 meters away. After 1 ˝ days of drawing and letting fly, Pace is ahead, 717 to 712. In two more days, McKinney manages to pull three points nearer, but Pace wins it, 2,592 to 2,590. An unmatched pair...
...Ranch begins as six sleepy cowpunchers stir from their bedrolls and head for the campfire's warm glow. Beyond the flames is the covered cook wagon, sides of beef hanging outside and a bag of flour sitting within. After wolfing down biscuits, meat and gravy, the six men pull on their chaps and walk slowly to the corral to saddle the horses and head...
...steel). Australia has had such infatuations in the past. First it was Britain, then the U.S. and Japan. In the 1980s it was China; now, after a pause, it's China again. But this time, the life force is different: you can sense China's velocity and intensity, a pull and push that can't be stopped, but that hopefully can be managed...