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...their aggregation, they refer to social structures: hives, crowds, nests, colonies. They suggest hierarchies and sometimes conflict. But all this is decidedly muffled, submerged so far in the paint that it hardly works as allegory. Winters does not want to make his images specific: "I want them to trigger multiple readings, so that they somehow function above and below language, not exactly on the line." But some of his titles, like Dystopia (the reverse of Utopia: a failed society), 1985, leave no doubt that rumination on the human order is meant...
What explains all this commerce and excitement in such a tiny community is geography: its location between Beverly Hills and Hollywood (which legally disappeared into the city of Los Angeles in 1910). Shaped like a pistol complete with hammer and trigger, West Hollywood nestles at the base of the Hollywood Hills with its barrel aimed resolutely east...
...mother was murdered wasn't just any day to her. It was a specific day, a specific hour, a specific minute. It was a specific second when they pulled the trigger, and she was still alive one thousandth of a second later when the bullet killed...
...trigger for the violence was an early-morning raid on a house by nine police officers searching for a teenager who was suspected of possessing a sawed-off shotgun. The youth's mother confronted the police after they had battered down her front door. Apparently fearing that the armed youth was inside, a police inspector fired a .38-cal. pistol. The shot struck the woman, leaving her paralyzed from the waist down. As word of the shooting spread, crowds gathered outside the Brixton Road police station and began throwing gasoline bombs and bricks. Rampaging youths, some as young...
...main beneficiary of any Saudi price cuts will be the Riyadh treasury. While lower crude-oil rates will mean fewer dollars per bbl., they could trigger an increase in sales. That would pump badly needed cash into a nation that has seen its foreign currency reserves drop by some $20 billion in the past year, to less than $100 billion...