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...late 1920s Picasso met the teenage Marie-Therese Walter, a pillowy blond who would shortly become his lover and eventually bear their daughter Maya. Within a few years he was seeking a way to paint rapture, and where better to find an answer than in the canvases of Matisse? For Nude in a Black Armchair, 1932, he borrowed Matisse's voluptuous curves as a sign for pleasure and his use of black to intensify pink. And on seeing work like that--pictures that amplified the innovations of his own earlier work--Matisse was inspired to the more radical flattening that...
...other hand, we are learning that each letter in that text can spell the difference between blond and brunet, tall and short, life and death. A woman who carries a mutation in the BRCA1 gene can have a seven times greater chance of developing breast cancer. Scientists in Utah last week announced the discovery of a gene that seems to predispose carriers to depression. We are learning these things in part because of Watson, who, having revealed the simplicity of DNA's structure, wanted to explore the complexity of its function. He helped persuade Congress to fund the Human Genome...
...brash blond rapper Eve is at work on a clothing line called FETISH, due later this year...
...blond bomber Murphy and the Abercrombie-chic Kutcher provide the eye candy in this case. They play a young married couple (Sarah and Tom) who endure a league of post-nuptial traumas on their honeymoon in Europe. These range from mishaps during their induction into the mile-high club to the curious appearance of Sarah’s snobbish ex-lover Peter. Giving up the ending, however, would be a travesty, especially if audiences found the conclusion of Pretty Woman to be hugely surprising...
Cooper, meanwhile, still drives to the desolate Clinton headquarters every day. She had spent her career trying to get the higher-ups to take her internal-auditing division seriously; it is only now, in bankruptcy, that WorldCom is finally doing so. Cooper, 38, a petite blond, has been given more money and twice as many staff members. Her division is probably the most secure at the company. And it is quite obvious that she is heartbroken. "There have been times," says Cooper, a woman not given to intense displays of emotion, "that I could not stop crying...