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...Matisse relocated to Nice, in the south of France, and in much of his work over the next three decades he would return - you might say retreat - to more conventional renderings of space and form. Decades passed before other artists began to draw out the full implications of his fertile experiments. Color-field paintings, for example - the big monochrome wafers of Ellsworth Kelly, the gossamer pools of pigment in Helen Frankenthaler - would emerge directly from Matisse, but not until the 1950s. Maybe we didn't understand him too quickly after...
Sarah Palin doesn't really do compromise. Defiance is more her style. So when other Republicans began to go soft on their promises to "repeal and replace" Barack Obama's landmark health care reform, the former Alaska governor went reliably rogue. Wearing a trim black leather jacket and pencil skirt, Palin appeared at a rally for John McCain in Arizona and urged the GOP faithful not to quail now. "I see Fidel Castro likes Obamacare, and we don't," she taunted. "Doesn't that tell you something...
...Pima County Fairgrounds, many of them apparently there to see Palin rather than the actual candidate--something Cindy McCain highlighted in her brief remarks, to nervous laughter. Notably, all the cable news networks (Fox News included) cut away from live coverage once Palin had concluded her remarks and McCain began...
...Motorola's market share was halved from the prior year. Motorola fell from the No. 2 mobile manufacturer globally to barely eking out a spot in the top five, leading some to suggest that the handset unit should close shop. Investors, including billionaire activist shareholder Carl Icahn, began agitating for Motorola's breakup...
That investment is showing some positive signs. Handset sales began slowly improving in late 2009 as Jha set about changing Motorola's 9-to-5 corporate culture and wooed top talent away from competitors. He scrapped much of the 2009 product portfolio in favor of new smart-phone offerings, all running Google's Android operating platform. (Get the latest gadget news and reviews at Techland.com...