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...months now a splotch of tropical warmth has been spreading across the Pacific Ocean, from the international dateline to the South American coast. With understandable concern, climatologists have been tracking its progress, for it signifies that El Nino--that mischievous gremlin of the atmosphere and oceans--is once again gathering strength, preparing to unleash meteorological havoc in the months to come. The tropical storms spawning off Mexico, the heavy downpours that have drenched Chile and Peru, the worrisome lack of rain in Australia and Indonesia--all, say scientists, are signs that a powerful El Nino has grabbed control...
...Eastern time, astronomers at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Maryland, had to wait for images to be beamed down from the orbiting Hubble telescope. Finally, at about 8, the first pictures came up on the video screen -- and there, right at Jupiter's edge, was a bright splotch of light. "Somebody tell me that isn't one of Jupiter's moons," said an anxious Heidi Hammel, a planetary scientist from M.I.T...
Last Friday, an electrician visited the house to install a security system. When no one answered the front door, he walked around the house, peering through windows. He thought he saw a mannequin sprawled on the floor, until he noticed a splotch of blood by its ear. When police and the coroner broke down the door, they found Cobain dead on the floor, a shotgun still pointed at his chin and, on a nearby counter, a suicide note penned in red ink, reportedly ending with the words "I love you, I love you," addressed, a source said, to Love...
...features prominently in the book A Dark and Bloody Ground, but the literary content wasn't questioned in the lawsuit filed by Tammy's sister, Tawny Acker Hogg. It was the cover, which includes a portrait of Tammy -- without her family's permission. The photo appears with a glossy splotch of red superimposed over her face. "This is pure commercial exploitation designed to sell a product with Acker's photograph," said Joe F. Childers, Hogg's attorney, arguing that under a Kentucky law she can control use of her sister's image...
...this subject when it reflects on what might strike the unprepared visitor as the wretched pictorial ineptitude of such artists as Sue Williams, Raymond Pettibon, Mike Kelley and Karen Kilimnik. (Williams can't draw at all, although her installation The Sweet and Pungent Smell of Success includes a dandy splotch of plastic vomit.) Their work, says the catalog, "deliberately renounces success and power in favor of the degraded and dysfunctional, transforming deficiencies into something positive in true Warholian fashion." Presumably if they weren't vigilant with themselves, they might turn into teensy Titians, engorged with mastery...