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...make a side remark while I'm discussing a serious subject - simply because of the sound of the words, or the sound of the thought - I think it's legitimate." He was briefly at Berkeley, then transferred to Stanford, where he took a drawing class. In his early 20s he went to Washington, D.C., where Leslie had a practice. There Manny took up the carpenter's trade. (When he visited us at Film Comment in the 70s, our office was in the American Bible Building; he remarked that he had worked on the building's construction.) Carpentry may have influenced...
Around the courtyard, the potential recruits, men of all ages, squat and stand. There are half a dozen in their 20s; at least twice as many older men, some as old as 50. A group of 10 Cossacks - in their traditional blue breeches with a wide red stripe down the side, green tunic bedecked in medals and tall black riding boots - forms to one side. One man has a curled handlebar mustache and watery pale-blue eyes. The men in this group won't talk to the press and keep walking off to stand and talk in a circle...
...reason for that delay in onset of cardiovascular disease could be that women are relatively iron-deficient compared to men - especially younger women, those in their late teens and early 20s - because of menstruation. Iron plays a very important part in the reactions in our cells that produce damaging free radicals, which glom onto cell membranes and DNA, and may translate into aging the cell. In fact, in our diets, red meat is the main source of iron, and lack of iron is probably one major reason that being vegetarian is healthy for you. There was a very good study...
...There are a few other reasons that men die earlier in life more often than women.] Men in their late teens and 20s go through something called "testosterone storm." The levels of the hormone can be quite high and changeable, and that can induce some pretty dangerous behavior among young men. They don't wear their seatbelts; they drink too much alcohol; they can be aggressive with weapons and so on and so forth. These behaviors lead to a higher death rate...
...rare and generally have to do with civic decor, of which the big sculpture raised in the '80s in the Parc de l'Escorxador in Barcelona is probably the best. But this takes nothing away from the brilliance, even the genius, of his earlier work -- especially in the '20s and '30s, when he was in Paris and making the finest paintings associated with the Surrealist movement. Miro always used to be referred to as ''the great Spanish artist,'' which is technically true but culturally wrong. He was a Catalan artist, and the difference -- as anyone who knows Catalans will know...