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...Matisse paints The Red Studio, "discarding perspective, abolishing shadows, repudiating the academic distinction between line and color," as his biographer Hilary Spurling puts it. Already burdened by the Fauve ("wild beast") misnomer, his public saw his work as a threat "to undermine civilization as they knew it." At virtually the same moment, his great rival Picasso creates his equally masterly Cubist collage Still-Life with Chair Caning and Guitar, which reverses the centuries-old traditions of sculpture, focusing the spectator's eye not on the final effect but on the process and materials by which it is obtained...
...same spirit, we've received some unforgettable presents, such as the water buffalo sent by a cousin. Actually, the beast was donated in our family's name through the Heifer Project International heiferproject.org to a village in the Philippines. That year, after Christmas dinner, we had fun naming our animal, imagining what it looked like, and wondering whether we could get one for our village in upstate New York. The Wal-Mart epiphany and my cousin's generosity had taken us far: the Year of the Water Buffalo stands out as the Christmas when my family finally managed to give...
ADOPT-AN-ANIMAL To benefit a beast in San Francisco, call 800-264-6600 or make contact online at www.sfzoo.org/adopt.html Or call your local zoo to see if it has a similar program...
...rudeness somehow throws a switch in our heads and turns us into people we are not. Suddenly we are screaming, cursing, falling to our knees and waving both extended middle fingers into the air, howling like a beast...
...beast has not died--27 million slaves still exist worldwide," Rossini said...