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...decades later, MOMA also plunged heavily on Matisse; Alfred * Barr's belief in Matisse's supreme importance to modernism, at a time when the artist was widely considered to be a decorator (albeit a great one), gave New York City a collection of incomparable breadth. Some key paintings are absent, chiefly the crucial Luxe, Calme et Volupte, 1904-05. But there are not many holes in this tapestry, and given the cost of insurance and owners' growing reluctance to expose artworks to the risk of travel, it may be that no museum will ever be able to mount such...
...America is suddenly forced to bear. Slow growth is the curse of the 1990s. But if it is managed correctly, there is no reason to believe American prospects in the long run are dim. They are not. What is required is a collective political will that has been conspicuously absent from the American economic landscape for too long...
...United States, the lone superpower and supposedly the leader of the "new world," has been absent in supplying the initiative and resources to mount such an operation. The U.S. aversion to limited military commitments is again hampering a sensible and moral foreign policy...
...borders and intensified relief efforts. He also pushed for the creation of a permanent negotiating mechanism in Geneva to slog through the messy details standing in the way of a Yugoslav settlement. All these things came to pass, and Eagleburger was pleased by the strong international unity demonstrated. But absent the use of U.S. military force, which he fears could lead to another Vietnam quagmire, none of these steps will guarantee a formula for changing Serb behavior soon, and he knows it. "To a degree I think we're in the midst of a Greek tragedy," he says, "which...
...becomes hard in an era of recombinant families created by divorce, remarriage and adoption. The traditional stricture -- no carnal relations between parent and child or brother and sister -- still holds, but how does it apply to today's blended and extended families, where blood ties are often thin or absent...