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Jackson Pollock, From Scratch;Two Painstaking Biographers and Their Shocking Portraitof the Artist
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He was the original macho man of abstract expressionism. The
hard-drinking cowboy from Cody, Wyo., whose wife tended to his every
need. The blunt, inarticulate genius whose revolutionary approach to
painting changed the course of contemporary art. The James Dean of
the art world-an American original whose sensitivity and machismo
inspired countless imitations long after he hurled himself headlong
into death at 44 in a car crash his mistress survived.
Or was he?
In 1982 Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith, a writing team
with four books then to their credit, had just this image of ...
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Dowry: South Asian Malady
Magazine article from: Women's Feature Service
; ...developed areas of Pakistan, dowry demands are so high among the...the simplest way and minimum dowry should be given, lavish weddings and large dowries are the order of the day...collected because a large number of dowry deaths occur in rural areas...
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Dowry: Extreme or mainstream?
Newspaper article from: Kuwait Times (Kuwait City, Kuwait)
; ...others in Kuwait the dowry is still a topic that...and religion. Although dowries are illegal in present...Opinions about the dowry vary greatly among the...I did not want any dowry but my wife's parents...needed to buy a house." Dowries don't always come in...
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Bangalore 'dowry court' hears harrowing stories, demands stringent law
News Wire article from: The Hindustan Times
; ...harassed by their husbands and in-laws for dowry -- at a unique "court" here Tuesday...together to hold the India Court of Women on Dowry, called "Daughters of Fire". The special court was summoned to hear cases of dowry related violence from across the country...
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When Dowry Becomes Refundable.
News Wire article from: Africa News Service
; ...approach the court asking to be refunded dowry 36 years after a marriage has broken down...Kithuka went to court seeking a refund of dowry that he had paid for his wife, Kavata...Nzoka refuted these claims and said the dowry had been refunded to Kithuka's mother...
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Feature: dowry deaths hunt Bangladeshi brides
News Wire article from: Xinhua News Agency
; Feature: dowry deaths hunt Bangladeshi brides DHAKA...mother-in-law because she cannot pay the dowry. Sharmin Sultana, received the burn wounds...then set her on fire for failing to bring dowry from her father. The incident happened...
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When Dowry Went Wrong
Newspaper article from: Hinduism Today
; ...wedding parties or opulent dowries)." In Oldenburg's...grooms. An attractive dowry became the prize to catch...to death of wives whose dowries did not meet expectations...unfairly perceived as `dowry problems;' it would be...
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Stridhanam: Rethinking dowry, inheritance and women's resistance among the Syrian Christians of Kerala
Magazine article from: Anthropologica
; Keywords: dowry, testamentary inheritance, intestate...been given or promised stridhanam, or dowry, by her father. The Travancore Christian...Roy case as the backdrop for discussing dowry and inheritance practices among urban...
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A Brand Called Dowry
Magazine article from: Women's Feature Service
; ...image of Sharma - with hennaed hands and a dowry of branded washing machines, refrigerators...announced that her protest was not against dowry per se but against the manner in which...mutually brokered deal on the amount of dowry to be given. More dowry - that was the...
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India: State of Dowry Deaths
Magazine article from: Women's Feature Service
; ...and pregnant. She had been harassed for dowry by her husband, Hemant, and in-laws...that she had been married. Arguments over dowry were a common occurrence in this household...as a result of his incessant demands for dowry. Investigations by the police, the medico...
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India: Listening to Combat Dowry
Magazine article from: Women's Feature Service
; ...has channelised her trauma over her daughter's 'dowry death' to ensure that no other woman shares her fate. Although India has a stringent anti-dowry law (Dowry Prohibition Act, 1961), dowry deaths and harassment...
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