Word: amsterdam
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...American preoccupations with national landscape found the smallest echo in his work--not the sublime rhetoric of Frederick Church, not the tight-surfaced stillness of the Luminists and certainly not the blunt factuality of Winslow Homer. Whistler was a superb topographical etcher, as his scenes of London, Amsterdam and Venice show; but he cared nothing for realism when aesthetics pointed away from...
Gilligan said Anne Frank's diary is an example of a strong adolescent voice censored by the constraints of society. In 1942, Anne and her family, who were Jewish, went into hiding from the Germans in an attic in Amsterdam. In the next two years, from the time she was 13 to 15, Anne kept a journal of her experience living in the attic...
...recede, sections of the dikes may begin to shift -- even burst. More than a quarter-million Dutch have already fled, fearing the worst flood disaster since 1953, when 1,800 people died. "There's still a massive evacuation underway, and large chunks of Holland are completely deserted," says TIME Amsterdam reporter James Geary...
...forgotten still life gathering dust in an attic for decades was identified as a Van Gogh. The painting, probably executed in 1886, was picked up at a flea market in France just after World War II, but its purchaser did not recognize the signature. Curators at Amsterdam's Van Gogh Museum declined to put a value on Still Life (Vase with Flowers); in 1990 Van Gogh's Portrait of Dr. Gachet sold for $82.5 million...
...Ressner, TIME's entertainment correspondent in Los Angeles, never sleeps. Ressner ranges tirelessly from the executive suites of Burbank and the sound stages of Culver City to the tables down at Mortons and Spago. He has knocked back rounds of tequila with Oliver Stone, strolled the wild streets of Amsterdam with the Red Hot Chili Peppers and watched as many as five movies in a day. "He's the Jerry Rice of the Hollywood beat," says Jordan Bonfante, chief of our Los Angeles bureau. "Like the San Francisco 49er wide receiver, he'll catch anything that's thrown...