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Unlike Hergé, Magritte was a late bloomer. Born in 1898, his artistic talents initially led him into wallpaper design and advertising (a field in which Hergé briefly moonlighted too). It wasn't until 1945 that he was able to support himself solely though his art. But Magritte's advertising apprenticeship taught him about the efficiency of images, the shock value of a grotesque combination or a violent contradiction. And he delivered them prolifically, from a rainfall of men in bowler hats and portraits of eagles ossified into plants to his famous picture of a pipe, subtitled "Ceci...
...TIME: You describe yourself as a late bloomer for having come out after you were 40 years old. Leifer: I'm finding, especially with women, a couple of different kinds of gays. I've met people who say, "I knew I was gay my whole life, and I lived this lie, and then I finally came out." My kind of gay is like the late-breaking-lesbian kind of gay. I mean, I was attracted to boys. My first crush was on Davy Jones. My kind of gay, meeting a woman and falling in love, is a different experience because...
...against the Bears on “Senior Day” had symbolic importance—co-captains Chris Clayton and Michael Kalfayan, alongside Sasha Ermakov and Michael Libert, will never again compete on Harvard’s evergreen concrete courts.HARVARD 5, YALE 2The Crimson was again a late bloomer yesterday against the Bulldogs. For its ailing hopes of retaining the Ivy League title, however, it was too little, too late; league-leaders Columbia defeated Princeton to secure its second Ancient Eight championship in three years.“We came out and fought today,” Clayton said...
ANTRÀS: THE EARLY BLOOMER...
...Twilight, and Bella and Edward do little more than kiss. "I get some pressure to put a big sex scene in," Meyer says. "But you can go anywhere for graphic sex. It's harder to find a romance where they dwell on the hand-holding. I was a late bloomer. When I was 16, holding hands was just...