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Titian was the son of a provincial notary, born in Pieve di Cadore, in north Italy, in 1478 or 1479. Apprenticed to a Venetian artist before his 10th birthday (no child labor, no Renaissance), he came to work with the two painters whose work incarnated the "modern style" that had pushed Venetian taste away from gold-ground Gothic: Giovanni Bellini and Giorgio da Castelfranco, alias Giorgione. One sees, in the introductory galleries of this show, how Bellini supplied the prototypes for one side of early Titian, his suave construction of pictorial space and pragmatic realism. Then, equally fundamental, there...
...roommate last year shared the exact same birthday, but had absolutely nothing in common. Since then, he says, he has not believed the stars at a person's birth determine his or her personality...
...always get a special kick on Opening Day, no matter how many you go through. You look forward to it like a birthday party when you're a kid. You think something wonderful is going to happen. Joe DiMaggio...
Denny's, home of the grand-slam breakfast, is getting slammed. A class-action suit alleges that West Coast outlets required money up front from black patrons and refused them standard offers like free birthday meals. An ex- employee has separately charged Denny's with discriminating against black workers. Denny's says it has ended the offenses and launched a minority-hiring program...
...Monsanto chemical plant -- but he too seemed in high spirits. He arrived at the same complex that morning to pay a neurology bill for the treatment of his older daughter's headaches. "He was just fine," says receptionist Dee Slack, who told him that that day was her 34th birthday. "We joked because I had forgotten, not my birthday, but the date of it." Griffin then picked up a drink at the Circle K and walked toward the site of a planned pro-life demonstration in front of the clinic where David Gunn was expected. The night before, Griffin...