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This is why earlier this month Serra, 67, spent weeks in one of the second-floor galleries of the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) in New York City. He was there to supervise the siting of Sequence and two other massive new pieces. Along with two more that were already resting hugely in the museum's sculpture garden, those works will be the crescendo of the Serra retrospective, organized by curators Kynaston McShine and Lynne Cooke, that opens at MOMA on June 3. But first it was necessary to get them indoors, which required two trailer trucks, a vast sliding...
...Jeopardy! in IT'S-MY-40TH-BIRTHDAY T shirts. They dress for it as if it were a job interview. Contestants leave not with refrigerators but with paychecks. Jeopardy! is about breadwinning; Price is about bread buying. (Wheel used to have a shopping segment in which contestants spent their winnings on trips and lawn furniture, but it gave up the déclassé--and fun--segment when it became a big-deal evening show...
...Alabama and raised in Tennessee, Thompson, the son of a used-car salesman, had no family ties to big-time politics or Hollywood, but his charisma - and luck - eventually helped him succeed in both. After putting himself through college at Memphis State and law school at Vanderbilt, he spent several years in private practice and as a prosecutor and then went on to Washington in 1973 to work on the Watergate investigation. His foray into acting began accidentally. Film director Roger Donaldson interviewed the young lawyer while doing research for a movie about a corruption case and offered Thompson...
...families live in extreme poverty; the homeless population is guessed at tens of thousands; and more than 100,000 people are considered at risk. Worse, the coalition's same report found Chicago fared pathetically when stacked against other large cities in spending. San Francisco, the study found, spent more than $100 per homeless person; New York invests $37 per capita; Philadelphia, $11; Chicago...
...plan won't work," said Brenda Faye Smothers, who spent eight months on the street. "People aren't ready for housing. They're too comfortable, as we say, in the shelters." Many aldermen are equally skeptical. "It's a laudable goal, ending homelessness and I wish him the best of luck," says Toni Preckwinkle, who helped lead the May 7 City Council fight. "But not without the right safety nets in place, and it seems this Mayor is not willing to put those there...