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...worked together on the same canvas and rarely signed their first names to anything. But scholars have gone far in separating the three. Antoine, according to contemporary accounts, "excelled in miniatures and portraits in small." The peasant paintings of Louis, the most talented of the three, were a happy blend of Dutch naturalism and Roman classicism. Mathieu, the most successful, became master painter to the city of Paris, assumed the title of Seigneur de la Jumelle. But this sort of pomposity does not invade his Card Players. The game is tense, the players wary; an everyday scene becomes a study...
...didn't last. And Nigeria has at last warmed up to U.S.-style education. For years British-trained Nigerians chained students to a syllabus that taught all about 18th century England; they scorned as unfit for Nigeria the U.S. blend of liberal and practical schooling. That attitude is now dying. Converts include such once ferocious critics as the Western Region's former Education Minister Stephen Awokoya, who visited the U.S., changed his mind one night in a Boston hotel. Said he: "If this system of education can develop the highly admirable culture that exists in the U.S. today...
...beaten the best in the world. A year later he abandoned chess, possibly because the girl he hoped to marry scorned the game. Morphy, as Novelist Keyes resurrects him, is a colorless weakling, whose intellect, despite the fact that everyone thinks him brilliant, is an unfavorable blend of compoop and nincompoop...
...news is not what people want to read at breakfast," took control of the Chronicle. As his right-hand man he picked Scott Newhall, lively scion of another leading Bay family. Dipping into Hearst's own bag of tricks, Newhall and Thieriot began converting the Chronicle into a blend of sex, sensation and spice...
...Pettersen, LaPointe, and company came back with goals at 17:56 and 18:32, leaving the varsity on the short end of the 6-5 final score. During the evening Crimson goalie Bob Blend outsaved Armstrong...