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...Livorno, a cosmopolitan city where Jews had lived freely since the Renaissance. Educated and progressive--his mother shocked her in-laws by starting a private school; his socialist brother was jailed for his political activities--his family had once been prosperous as well. But by the time of his birth, in 1884, they had been reduced to poverty by the failure of his father's businesses...
Sickly almost from birth--pleurisy, then typhoid, both of them preludes to the tuberculosis that would kill him in 1920, at age 35--Modigliani became consumed by art as a child. In his early teens he quit school to study drawing full time, and in the years that followed he would study painting in Florence and sculpture in the marble quarries of Carrara. By 1906 he was ready for Paris. It was by then the cockpit of modernity, the Paris of Picasso, Matisse, Derain and Vlaminck. Some of the first canvases in this show are portraits of women painted...
...appearing in the tabs in your onesie weren't humiliation enough, celebrity babies have lately been enduring more lasting indignities. In naming her newborn daughter Apple, GWYNETH PALTROW joined a host of stars saddling their children with quirky monikers. Geena Davis has just given birth to twin boys Kian and Kaiis, Helen Hunt bore girl MaKena lei Gordon, Rachel Griffiths christened a son Banjo Patrick, Jason Lee had boy Pilot Inspektor, and Cedric the Entertainer welcomed daughter Lucky Rose. And the august-sounding Roman appears to be the new Jack--Cate Blanchett and Debra Messing chose it for their sons...
Congratulations to representative Dana Rohrabacher, 56, and his wife Rhonda, 34, who gave birth to triplets last month. As we tend to suspect when a couple has triplets, the new parents used the services of a fertility clinic. Modern in-vitro techniques generally involve creating multiple embryos in the laboratory, transferring two or three and hoping that at least one will make it through to birth. Often it doesn't work. Sometimes it works unexpectedly well. Successful or not, the process creates many more embryos than babies. There is a built-in presumption--really, an intention--that even most...
...have concerns about information that other people have posted about your family online--such as birth dates of living people or Social Security numbers--contact the relevant websites and your local elected officials. As an avid genealogist says, "I would rather work a little harder at my research than have people put at risk by information posted simply to make genealogical researchers' jobs easier." And finally, experts say to order your credit report twice a year to stay on top of purchases. --By Lois Gilman