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PHOTOS: Should Santa Monica Scrap Anti-War Sculpture?

AP | JOHN ROGERS | Posted 07.16.2012 | Los Angeles
Read More: Anti War Sculpture, Chain Reaction, Santa Monica Chain Reaction, Paul Conrad, Santa Monica Civic Auditorium Scuplture, Santa Monica Anti War Sculpture, Los Angeles News

SANTA MONICA, Calif. -- For decades the big, black mass of chain link that's piled up outside the Civic Center has alternately awed and inspired, anno...

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Chain Reaction

Jeffrey Abelson | Posted 05.30.2012 | Arts
Read More: Santa Monica, Art, Nuclear, Public Art, Statue, Chain Reaction, Paul Conrad, Sculpture, Arts News
Jeffrey Abelson

Paul Conrad had a desire to make a bold statement about our nuclear madness, and came up with a concept for a gigantic mushroom cloud made out of chain links. He called it "Chain Reaction."

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Dead Folks 2010: Everyone's Pushing Up Roses

Tallulah Morehead | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: Stephen J. Cannell, Obituary, Art Gilmore, Leslie Nielsen, Ted Sorenson, Peter Graves, Paul Conrad, Robert Culp, Daryl F. Gates, Lynn Redgrave, Arthur Penn, J.D. Salinger, Rue McClanahan, James MacArthur, Bob Guccione, Jean Simmons, John Wooden, Alexander Haig, Kevin McCarthy, Tony Curtis, Solomon Burke, Celebrities, Fred Foy, Tom Bosley, Eddie Fisher, Edwin Newman, Barbara Billingsley, Gary Coleman, Jill Clayburgh, Dennis Hopper, Lena Horne, Art Linkletter, Fess Parker, Dino De Laurentiis, Patricia Neal, Gloria Stuart, Entertainment News
Tallulah Morehead

Happy New Year, darlings. All of you reading this piece have something in common: you survived 2010. Not everyone was so lucky, and a lot of people, as always, took the off-ramp from Life.

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Pulitzer-Winning Cartoonist Dies At 86

AP | ANDREW DALTON | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
Read More: Paul Conrad Cartoons, Editorial Cartoonists, Cartoonists, Political Cartoonists, Paul Conrad, Media News

LOS ANGELES — For more than half a century, Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist Paul Conrad poked fun at politicians, taking on presidents from Ha...

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A Canary in Democracy's Coal Mine

Jeffrey Abelson | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
Read More: Cartoonists, Political Cartoon, Conrad, Editorial Cartoons, Paul Conrad, LA Times, Ronald Reagan, Richard Nixon, Media News
Jeffrey Abelson

Long before Jon Stewart regaled us with his deliciously crafted imagery to make sharply pointed political statements, a posse of fearless editorial cartoonists did much the same thing.

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