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...years right after 1913 were an anxious time for Matisse. Born in 1869, he entered his mid-40s more visible than ever in the art world, but with work that to the French was still an eyesore. Though for the first time he was making enough money from his art to buy his family a comfortable house in a Paris suburb, much of his income derived from a single Russian patron, Sergei Shchukin, a wealthy merchant willing to fill his drawing room with Matisse's most difficult pictures while Moscow society snickered. (See the top 10 art exhibitions...
...anxious, of course, because I have deep roots in dead-tree media and still take substantial nourishment from it. (For the record, I am the news director of both TIME and TIME.com, but the nature of breaking news means that most of my day is spent making sure the website gets fed with stories.) With the publishing industry in a depression, Apple's latest innovation (or feat of technological repackaging) has been hailed as a potential savior: the entry point for print to become a whole new medium while preserving its essential identity. Since TIME's iPad app was also...
...Fightin’ Blue Hens are not generally top competition for teams in the EARC. But Delaware returns five rowers from the boat that won the Dad Vail Regatta last year and is anxious to make waves in early season action against an EARC-boat in Harvard...
...constitutional mechanisms. Months of maneuvering and brinkmanship lie ahead, with a growing threat of violence in the political vacuum. The election results appear to confirm that no single power center, local or foreign, is capable of stabilizing Iraq on its own terms. The country's prospects in the anxious months ahead may depend as much on the wisdom and statesmanship of its own politicians as on the extent of conflict or cooperation between the U.S., the Arab regimes and Iran. The escalating standoff between Washington and Tehran is unlikely to help...
...That’s why I’m very anxious to get the decision made,” Hanken said in an interview last year, adding that there was “always the chance” the allocated space could have ended up in the hands of a different University interest unless the current plan met definite approval...