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from hundreds of hours of behind-the-scenes and rehearsal footage shot in Los Angeles weeks before Jackson was to kick off 50 comeback concerts in London. It will also feature interviews with Jackson's friends and collaborators. Portions of the movie
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Contra Costa Times
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Serendipity. That's what brings a lost drama by a famous American playwright and an obscure Japanese art form to the Hamptons."It's a coincidence," says Helen Harrison, director the Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center in Springs, "that we're
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New York Newsday
http://www.newsday.com/entertainment/theater/tennessee-williams-and-japanese-art-in-the-hamptons-1.1350736?localLinksEnabled=false
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...The Pollock – a suede flat dappled with Jackson-Pollock-esque paint splotches – turns a garden-variety black slip-on into a subtly sexy work of art. On sale for $105 (reg. $210) in five colors at French Sole, 985 Lexington Avenue at 71st Street; 212-737-2859. GRAB...
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NBC New York
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If you ever wondered what pieces of art work can do to some people then you may want to check out the documentary, "Who The @#%@!! Is Jackson Pollock". This story follows the account of one woman living in a trailor park home who found what was thought
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Movies Online
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The exhibition illustrates international post-WWII contemporary trends in abstraction, including Abstract Expressionism, CoBrA, Taschism, and Art Informel with works by Karel Appel, Alberto Burri, Eduardo Chillida, Willem de Kooning, Jimmy Ernst,
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Huliq.com
http://www.huliq.com/13/82993/guggenheim-museum-exhibits-sweeney-decade
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But for the kids in attendance, it boiled down to a simple equation: catapults + paint = fun.
Yesterday, at a quiet sculpture garden and arts center at the southern tip of Calvert County, a few dozen families built catapults, then used them to fling
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The Washington Post
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Ever since I discovered that, during the cold war, the CIA played an active
role in the promotion of abstract expressionist art around the world, I have
unfailingly applied what I call the CIA test whenever I encounter a fresh
example of American
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Times Online
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Foreign Dispatches
http://foreigndispatches.typepad.com/dispatches/2009/05/the-jackson-pollock-simulator.html
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'Convergence,' by Jackson Pollock, is among the stunning canvases on display at the Albright-Knox Gallery until June 10.
Action/Abstraction show of 20th-century art connects Buffalo with its tradition of modernism
"Action/Abstraction: Pollock, de
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Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/article/634440
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Oscar G Torres, the grad student who presented this Helios gadget-charging power tree last year at NYU's ITP show was back at the Spring ITP show this year with Jackoon, a robot that paints. Jackoon is named after Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning—
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Dvice
http://dvice.com/archives/2009/05/jackoon-paintin.php
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Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Larry Miller:
Figures in the Ground is at thisisnotashop, 26 Benburb Street, Dublin 7, until May 16; www.thisisnotashop.com
Keeping the avant-garde faith: Larry Miller
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Irish Times
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/features/2009/0505/1224245938701.html
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BRUNSWICK, Maine - "New York Cool" is the breezy but quietly provocative title of a survey of postwar American art culled from the collection of New York University. Currently installed in two lovely rooms at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art in
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Boston Globe
http://www.boston.com/ae/theater_arts/articles/2009/04/24/the_cool_crowd?rss_id=Boston.com+--+Theater+and+arts+news
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When Jackson Pollock began spattering canvases in his Long Island barn, some outraged art lovers flung mud back at him.
"It looks like scrambled eggs," said President Harry S. Truman, referring to the drip paintings that Pollock and some fellow
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Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
http://www.democratandchronicle.com/article/20090419/ENT01/904190311/1032/RSS05
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Sunday marks a monumental day for the University of Iowa's Museum of Art.
It's the first day an exhibition of the museum's collection has opened since the 2008 flood.
The exhibit, "A Legacy for Iowa: Pollock's 'Mural' and Modern Masterworks from the
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Iowa City Press Citizen
http://www.press-citizen.com/article/20090418/GOIOWACITY/904180305/1024/
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This past weekend I was working up a crossword puzzle from one of those books that collects the best offerings from the Sunday New York Times of the past. One of the clues was "Dada artist." Three letters.
Dow, you might be thinking? Hardly.
Now,
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The Street
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...3:30 p.m. Photos from UIMA University of Iowa Museum of Art Chief Preparator Steve Erickson affixes the UI's "Mural" by Jackson Pollock to the wall after the painting was moved Friday, April 10, 2009 at the Figge Art Museum in Davenport. The UIMA's collection...
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Cedar Rapids Gazette
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The star of the show is ready for its close-up.
Seven people carefully, slowly, moved Jackson Pollock's "Mural" into a gallery at the Figge Art Museum in Davenport Friday.
"Mural" is the most famous piece in the University of Iowa Museum of Art
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Cedar Rapids Gazette
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" Unequivocably Blue" 1967 Perle Fine artworks from the Hofstra Museum show at the Emily Lowe Gallery, "Tranquil Power: The Art of Perle Fine."
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When we think of Abstract Expressionism, we think of such painters as Jackson Pollock and Willem
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New York Newsday
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Although the tutorial Otterhopdotcom put together for Instructables is geared towards painting with children, the technique can be used by anyone who wants to lay down some interpretive paint. All you need are some shallow bowls, paint, cooked
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Lifehacker
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PARIS — From the dripping paint of Jackson Pollock to the paper cutouts of Henri Matisse and the tap routines of Fred Astaire, jazz has inspired some of the greatest artists of the past century.
A visitor looks at "You Turned the Tables on Me You"
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Centre Daily Times
http://www.centredaily.com/lifestyle/story/1179239.html
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NOTTINGHAM, UK.- Djanogly Art Gallery presents The American Scene - From Hopper to Pollock, on view through April 19, 2009. The American Scene: From Hopper to Pollock features spectacular images of American society and culture made during a period of
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Art Knowledge News
http://www.artknowledgenews.com/Djanogly_Art_Gallery.html
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The Badger Herald
http://badgerherald.com/artsetc/2009/02/18/opera_presents_art_a.php
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WALTHAM - With Brandeis University having announced its decision to close the Rose Art Museum this summer, "Hans Hofmann: Circa 1950" is one of a trio of exhibitions that are set to be the last mounted by the museum.
Hofmann was the great enabler of
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Boston Globe
http://www.boston.com/ae/theater_arts/articles/2009/02/01/in_teachers_works_strokes_of_brilliance?rss_id=Boston.com+--+TV+news
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The new Whitechapel Gallery is due to open in eight weeks time, and a very fine thing it is too. Re-energised by the gallery's original remit to bring great art to the people of east London, the Whitechapel is intent on reasserting itself as the centre
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The Independent
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/columnists/dylan-jones/dylan-jones-whitechapel-is-where-frida-kahlo-jackson-pollock-and-nan-goldin-all-gravitated-to-in-london-1518876.html
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Sure, the world may be slowly crumbling around us, but Google has its priorities straight, as usual. Today's Google homepage features this special holiday logo to commemorate the birth of Jackson Pollock. The artist would have turned 97 today. The
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mediabistro.com
http://www.mediabistro.com/unbeige/web/google_celebrates_jackson_pollocks_birthday_107110.asp?c=rss
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...for to use," said Margaret Anderson, the Art Museum's marketing and media manager (and a former DI staffer). "The Jackson Pollock piece is 20 feet long, so we couldn't easily find space for that." The pieces that have already returned to the UI are...
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Daily Iowan
http://www.dailyiowan.com/news/2009/01/26/Metro/Ui.Moves.Some.Art.Including.Pollock.To.Davenport-3597166.shtml
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..."Jackson Pollock and Shamanism" exhibit at the Pinacotheque -- a rather unconventional private museum in Paris -- is startling. One walks downstairs into a red chamber -- a womb of sorts -- where one is met with a black-and-white video of Native Americans...
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Huffington Post
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...and loss. He found nearly all of his subjects close to either Chadds Ford or Cushing. In 1950, he was selected along with Jackson Pollock by Time magazine as one of the greatest American artists. That and other public attentions, made clear the battle lines...
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Squidoo
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...— elbowed her way into the foreground of the abstract expressionist movement and into the company of artists like Jackson Pollock, Willem DeKooning, Franz Kline and Milton Avery. She was also a friend and collaborator with the poet Frank O'Hara. Hartigan died...
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NorthJersey.com
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...the overall series 29-18, but TSU has won three of the last four. Tennessee State is led by Kendra Appling's 18.2 and Tiffany Jackson's 15.9 points a game. TSU is without All-OVC preseason selection Oby Okafor, who's been out since the preseason with a knee...
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Leaf Chronicle
http://theleafchronicle.com/article/20090117/SPORTS70/901170342/1006/rss04
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...the exhibition in Buffalo. Abstract Expressionism grew out of the New York art scene in the 1940s, when artists such as Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, and David Smith created paintings and sculptures that catapulted American art onto the international...
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Art Knowledge News
http://www.artknowledgenews.com//Albright_Knox_Art_Gallery.html
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... Independent, low-budget movies changed Hollywood. Niche cable shows revolutionized television. Digital music toppled record labels. But for decades, console video games have remained overwhelmingly corporatedominated by safe franchise sequels (Madden, Pok...
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New York Magazine
http://nymag.com/news/features/all-new/53374/
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... Amor, morte, poesia, polÃtica, actualidade, futebol, efemérides, solidão, paz, humor, musica...tudo e nada; Here we talk about life, love, death, On this day in History, poetry, politics, football (soccer), solitude, peace, humour, music ... nothing and a...
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Nothingandall
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...artists working in the same style. The Greenberg-Rosenberg canon is not absent; there are fine works on paper by Franz Kline, Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning, and an especially mysterious-looking early panel painting by Arshile Gorky, as well as substantial...
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The New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/31/arts/design/31chan.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
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...color with three RGB dials, and a printer is standing by to make permanent your creation. I tried to spell Gizmodo for a second, but then realized that ol' JP would totally not be down with such concreteness. [DraWiing Jackson Pollack - ITP Winter 2008]...
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Gizmodo
http://gizmodo.com/5113686/channel-jackson-pollocks-drunken-splatters-with-a-wiimote
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...called "Cornell," with contemplative scenes of the gentle, reclusive Joseph Cornell assembling his delicate boxes. Jackson Pollock died in 1956, at the age of 44, after driving his car into a tree. He was the quintessential Action Painter, so it seems fitting...
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Wall Street Journal
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...art capital of the world. Rothko's giant canvases, symmetrically lined up like giant, brooding icons, link up with the works of Jackson Pollock, Ad Reinhardt and Robert Motherwell. They have a terrible inner intensity. They are all about inwardness and its desolations....
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The Independent
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/reviews/albert-irvin-a-retrospective-kings-place-gallery-london-1059137.html
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...National Museum of Contemporary Art had had to be sawn through to get them in. One of these cultural titans was by Jackson Pollock. The other belonged to the only woman artist in the show, Grace Hartigan. In the decade to come, Hartigan would turn against...
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The Independent
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/grace-hartigan-new-york-school-painter-who-later-rejected-abstract-expressionism-1056668.html
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...hunch by studying the artist’s monogram. The show also has a strong group of 20th-century works, by artists including Jackson Pollock, Georgia O’Keeffe, Ellsworth Kelly and Agnes Martin, that fills an important gap in the Morgan’s collection. Among the stars...
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The New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/05/arts/design/05voge.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
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...family's belongings on Long Island, he had discovered 32 drip paintings from his deceased parents' close friend and neighbor, Jackson Pollock. The collection's value was thought to be near $40 million. Not bad, considering most of the works had apparently...
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Forbes
http://www.forbes.com/technology/2008/12/03/collecting-forgery-art-forbeslife-cx_sf_1203fake.html?feed=rss_technology
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...of Art in Washington, D.C. Nyerges says he loves Jackson Pollock's 1948 painting Number Fifteen: "You can see and feel Jackson Pollock's arm twisting around as he's dipping his paintbrush into the can and then moving it across the surface of this picture...
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NPR
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...Hughes' Goya bio and the Prado's recent Tintoretto catalogue. For whatever reason I found myself thinking of Tintoretto and Jackson Pollock. Here's Tintoretto's Martyrdom of St. Lawrence, which is (obviously and obnoxiously) in the collection of Christ Church,...
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ArtsJournal
http://www.artsjournal.com/man/2008/12/rhyming_tintoretto_and_pollock.html
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...museums is "Action/Abstraction: Pollock, de Kooning and American Art, 1940-1976." This jigsaw puzzle based on an iconic Jackson Pollock drip painting is a One of the most difficult puzzles ever produced, it has stumped generations of jigsaw puzzle...
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch
http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/entertainment/stories.nsf/visitstlouis/story/8E983861D55657658625750F007A9A0B?OpenDocument
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... By ANDREW S. HUGHES Tribune Staff Writer SOUTH BEND—Although Jackson Pollock remains best known for his abstract expressionist “drip” paintings, the exhibition “Iconic America: Visionary Americans 1860 to Present” at the South Bend Museum of Art through...
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South Bend Tribune
http://www.southbendtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081129/Ent/811260028/-1/XML
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...recently. Potential buyers have to make an appointment to view it. Valuable abstract composition believed to be work of Jackson Pollock was on view at Beach exhibit The sound of voices and the tripping of an alarm at a small art gallery in the Beach has...
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Toronto Star
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...The truth, as Hartigan told it, was that she felt uncomfortable as an abstract expressionist working in the shadow of Jackson Pollock, though no critic ever guessed this from her assured ease of technique and beautiful sense of colour. Hartigan was the oldest...
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Guardian Unlimited
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2008/nov/24/1
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... When Horton had a garage sale, an art professor saw the drip-style painting and told her it could be the work of Jackson Pollock. "I said, 'Who the (bleep) is Jackson Pollock?'," Horton said. That immortal expression became the name of a documentary film...
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CTV
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...the Los Angeles museum. The Museum of Contemporary Art has a collection of nearly 6,000 works. These are among the highlights: Jackson Pollock, "Number 1, 1949," 1949, enamel and aluminum paint on canvas, gift of Rita and Raft Schreiber Mark Rothko,"No. 61...
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Los Angeles Times
http://feeds.latimes.com/~r/latimes/news/local/los_angeles_metro/~3/459002075/la-et-collections19-2008nov19,0,6123738.story
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...started to snow and Aaffien May is crouched on all fours on Toronto’s waterfront, peering under a boat, calling out for Jackson Pollock. “Jackson! Jacks!” she calls. A few moments later, Jackson’s furry black head pops up from inside the boat. Then, as if...
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National Post
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/toronto/archive/2008/11/12/for-the-cat-colony-of-cherry-street-a-warmer-place-to-sleep.aspx
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...million. The insurance protects all 12,000 works in the U of I Museum of Art's collection, with the big-ticket item being Jackson Pollock's "Mural," valued at $150 million. The university has three other works of art worth more than $10 million apiece and...
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Des Moines Register
http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20081110/NEWS02/811100317/1001/
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