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These spooky events, which have been going on since October 2, feature everything from a Chain Saw Drill Team lurking outside the haunted houses to a deranged dentist who brushes with unsuspecting visitors.
Whatever one's opinion of the paintings' success, they tell a poignant story of resilience and frailty, and of an artist who was passionately unwilling to put away his brushes.
In the next painting, Pirate (also 1981), de Kooning picks up his brushes again.
Except the lawyers have traded their fine brushes for broad ones--paint rollers, perhaps--and the Microsoft case appears even smaller than it did before.
The LAT also does a front-page review of the Supreme Court's performance, emphasizing the many ways in which its decisions stymied positions near and dear to Bill Clinton, whereas the Post 's treatment focuses not on the political, but the personal, noting that in considering medically assisted suicide, Justices O'Connor and Stevens no doubt drew on their own brushes with cancer, and that for the decision overturning suppression of cyberporn, the justices logged on to the Internet.