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French paintings copied

By Carl Hartman · Sunday, June 15,2003 8:42 p.m.

WASHINGTON -- J. Seward Johnson Jr. makes those realistic bronze figures that you can sit next to on park benches. Now he has a new gimmick: copying famous French impressionist paintings in three dimensions. "Beyond the Frame," his first one-man show at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, opens Sept. 13. The title explains that he's copying not only 18 impressionist and post-impressionist paintings, but also portraying the surrounding rooms and landscapes -- things the original artists left out altogether.

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Anything but 'Ad Nauseam'

By Brittany Ausmus · Sunday, June 15,2003 8:41 p.m.

Ad Nauseam," the complete thirteenth edition news archive of the nationally known humor newspaper The Onion, is one book you simply must purchase -- as long as you have a sense of humor and are not easily offended. This 13th archive of The Onion's biweekly newspaper is a humorous look back at 2000 and 2001, highlighting the ups, downs and everything in between.

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Musicians try to stop injuries

By Karren Mills · Sunday, June 15,2003 8:36 p.m.

ST. PAUL, Minn. -- Playing hurt was just part of the job for musicians for decades -- something to endure in silence, hoping it would go away with more practice. "No pain, no gain" was the prevailing attitude. Musicians feared they would be blamed or considered weak if they admitted feeling pain and took time off to heal. Their careers could be damaged.

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Man dies in drowning rescue attempt

Sunday, June 15,2003 8:35 p.m.

MARION, Ind. -- A man who jumped in the Mississinewa River to rescue his twin 11-year-old sons drowned Saturday in the current above a dam, police said. Both of Neill W. Cornell's sons survived after a man fishing on the riverbank came to their aid. Neither suffered any major injuries.

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Lugar to visit Iraq next week

Sunday, June 15,2003 8:35 p.m.

FORT WAYNE -- Sen. Dick Lugar, who has criticized the Bush administration's lack of planning for postwar Iraq, will visit Baghdad on June 23 for a firsthand look at reconstruction efforts.

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IUSA makes changes

By Jen Gossman · Sunday, June 15,2003 8:34 p.m.

The IU Student Association has changed its long-standing logo and two-year-old Web site design in an effort to increase accessibility and create a new image for the organization. These changes coincide with the new administration and its hopes of creating new lines of communication with the student body.

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A very Happy Father's Day

Sunday, June 15,2003 8:33 p.m.

GRISSOM AIR RESERVE BASE, Ind. -- About 80 Indiana reservists have returned from the war in Iraq, stepping off a plane into the arms of waiting loved ones.

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Duvall tangos the night away

By Michael Tapscott and Mike Tapscott · Thursday, June 12,2003 12 a.m.

"Assassination Tango" is the third film written and directed by Robert Duvall following "Angelo My Love" (1983) and "The Apostle" (1997). It is a film that slowly envelops a cross-section of a life, eventually revealing that amid cultural chaos, personal strife and moral evil lies the overwhelming pull towards normalcy.

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Rooney slips the mickey but has potential

By -Val Tsoutsouris · Thursday, June 12,2003 12 a.m.

Major label artist development ceased to exist years ago when labels realized that bands are only as good as their last single. So here's Rooney, a very young band nowhere near ready to hit the big time but on a major label, opening shows for Weezer and the Vines and apparently already drawing gaggles of screaming girls to their shows. The bandmates' combination of influences headed by a '60s rock fascination isn't wholly unpromising, but parading around like this is only going to raise expectations to an obscene level.

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It's too loud, I'm too old

By -Alec Toombs · Thursday, June 12,2003 12 a.m.

The Deftones have set themselves apart from white bread nu-metal contemporaries Staind and Linkin Park by embracing art-rock conventions established by such acts as the Cure and My Bloody Valentine back in the '80s. This experimentation is a welcome change from the cookie-cutter alt-rock heard on modern radio, but also tends to jumble the overall soundscape of the band's records.

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Flick subverts, embraces stereotypes

By -Alec Toombs · Thursday, June 12,2003 12 a.m.

"Better Luck Tomorrow" is a curious and occasionally disturbing little gem. Following its 2002 Sundance Film Festival premiere, Roger Ebert rightfully defended the film when a fellow critic (also white) labeled it an "immoral" representation of Asian Americans. While the movie, which boasts an Asian American director and cast, doesn't present the group in the greatest of lights, it's certainly not immoral.

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Walker lacks Diesel power

By Abhi Kumar · Thursday, June 12,2003 12 a.m.

That's right boys and girls, you can sit through this movie and watch the Ken and Barbie dolls of the moment driving around in suped-up cars having a ball. For all you car lovers, there are plenty of Mitsubishis (even a Lancer Evo for those in the know), Mustangs and a Beemer in action.

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'Schmidt' hits the fan on DVD

By -Alec Toombs · Thursday, June 12,2003 12 a.m.

Warren Schmidt, as played by Jack Nicholson in a career redefining performance, is a loser. "About Schmidt," the highly acclaimed yet commercially maligned glimpse into this Midwesterner's scorched psyche is not. As co-written and directed by Alexander Payne -- one of our generation's greatest satirists -- the film skewers the elders of Middle America in a fashion akin to his treatment of high schoolers in the equally entertaining "Election."

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Mellencamp returns to 'roots'

By Brian Eliott Johnson and Brian Elliott Johnson · Thursday, June 12,2003 12 a.m.

John Mellencamp has made a career of singing about slices of American life. Now with his latest, Trouble No More, he is at it again, but this time around he's letting others speak for him with an album full of covers and traditional songs ranging from Robert Johnson to Woody Guthrie to Lucinda Williams. Those expecting to hear echoes of his classic albums, such as The Lonesome Jubilee and Uh-Huh, may find disappointment with this latest effort, but those going into it with open ears will find a world that, while it doesn't hold the same personal sentiments of "Cherry Bomb" and "Little Pink Houses," still triumphs.

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'Prefuse'ly entertaining hip-hop

By Jessica Halverson and Jesscia Halverson · Thursday, June 12,2003 12 a.m.

Tne Word Extinguisher is the album to listen to after experiencing the draining existence of far too many modern rock sluts. It will restore your faith in creative musicianship. Listening to this sort of thing really makes me want to rip out my eyebrows at the waste that makes that Top 40. Scott Herren, the man who is Prefuse 73, takes looping and beatmixing to some strange high on his second LP.

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Cartoons explain many loopholes of 'The Matrix'

By -Paul Straw · Thursday, June 12,2003 12 a.m.

"The Animatrix" is a collection of nine cartoons expanding on the world of "The Matrix." Those out there who are big enough geeks (myself included), might have known four of the cartoons had been previously released on the internet and a fifth, "The Final Flight of the Osiris," played before the movie, "Dreamcatcher." The DVD includes those five along with four new animated featurettes.

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Essex Green's unpowerful pop

By Jessica Halverson and Jesscia Halverson · Thursday, June 12,2003 12 a.m.

Man, this band is annoying. From cutesy-everything to boring, kitsch lyrics to the damn flute that sneaks in every once in awhile, The Essex Green knows how to make a rut for itself. The sad thing is, the album seems to have a good premise.

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Waves of fear: Turning up the BPM

By Michael Tapscott and Mike Tapscott · Thursday, June 12,2003 12 a.m.

This New Wave of the New Wave thing, interesting in terms of nostalgia, is basically a genre of subtleties. Like picking from a hat, it's a general rule of thumb that the discovered band will be arbitrary and that there is another one waiting, buried in a shallow grave. It is a group of bands (most based in New York) whose sound recalls the late '70s and early '80s era of CBGBs and amphetamine-driven New Wave, No Wave and Post-Punk bands like the Talking Heads, Television, Wire and Gang of Four.

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Today I painted something blue

By Jessica Halverson · Thursday, June 12,2003 12 a.m.

When you're an outcast, you feel it. You know the stares from the other kids at work. Smoker. Tomboy. You're into Xiu Xiu, can't recommend DMB or 50 Cent. Grandaddy, not Pete Yorn. Maybe you can't pay attention so well. Dripped paint on the blueprints. Drifted off with the last instructions, completed your menial task the wrong way. You're almost 21; thought this feeling and the breakouts would have faded away with high school.

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