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<DIV><FONT size=4>All,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4>The following news item is offered as a counterpoint to
the well-informed, kind, saccharine, saintly Christian posts of Mr. Ed, Cowboy
Dick, and Timeless Tony.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4>Area Man, president of <STRONG><EM>The International Chuck
Norris Fan Club and Wattle Concession</EM></STRONG>, is hereby granted
permission to post this startling news on the fan club website.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4>W.</FONT></DIV>
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align=left><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 28pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">Actor Chuck Norris Finds New
Career<o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">By Juan Donatelo,
Reuters<o:p></o:p></SPAN></I></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
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w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on"><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">Washington</SPAN></B></st1:City><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">, <st1:State
w:st="on">DC</st1:State></SPAN></B></st1:place><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"> </SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">– </SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman">Acknowledging that
toilsome years of acting have failed to kill his great pain and suffering,
actor Chuck Norris provided a glimpse of the fruits of his new
career.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><o:p><FONT
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style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman">Early in his career
Norris was a fellow Mouseketeer with Annette Funicello.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>He recently acknowledged that he
has carried a soul consuming, agonizing torch for Funicello since they
split over a disagreement about the sexual proclivities of Richard
Nixon.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><o:p><FONT
face="Times New Roman"> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman">Immersing himself in
the arduous task of acting for fifty years did not kill or even ameliorate
the pain of their separation, Norris admits.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman">After years of
unsuccessful Schwarz-Bendleix therapy, Norris has taken up a whole new
career to assuage his grief -- sculpturing.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>He says that the pain he formerly
felt is now quickly disappearing as the focused exercise of his creative
energies expiates the loss of his former
love.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman">Norris's success at
sculpturing has been phenomenal.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Critics have universally praised his bold, innovative, torturously
self-revealing approach and his uncanny ability to capture in abstract
form the subtleties of many conflicting
emotions.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman">Today, a daring
exhibition of many of Norris's more <I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">avant-garde</I> pieces opens at the
National Gallery of Art.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman">A preview of this
exhibition has brought nothing but almost fulsome raves from art critics
from all over the world.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><o:p><FONT
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman">His <I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Angst of 21st Century Man</I> has been
proclaimed an instant masterpiece.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Critic Nelda Douche describes this work as a "shattering evocation
of the total helplessness of humankind in the face of the complex rigors
of our age ... a totally new way of using abstract form to reach and to
scratch painfully at the inner depths of the viewer's
soul."<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><o:p><FONT
face="Times New Roman"> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman">A photograph of the
miraculous, truly innovative <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Angst
of 21st Century Man</I> can be found at </FONT><A
href="http://www.designtoscano.com/shopping/product/anotherView.jsp?img=local/products/viewlarger/KY27148_vl.jpg"><FONT
face="Times New Roman">National Gallery of Art: Norris: <EM>Angst of 21st
Century Man</EM></FONT></A>.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>
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