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...Nothing is there merely because it "was there." Mark Rothko hated diagonals, but loved Hopper's. Richard Diebenkorn loved diagonals and loved Hopper's too. As well anyone might: the diagonal, the slanting patch (especially of light) becomes a wonderfully expressive element in Hopper, acting both as a structural brace for the actual painted surface and as a sign of fugitive reality in imagined space. In Morning Sun, 1952, you are acutely aware that Jo, the long-limbed, middle-aged woman staring at nothing in particular from her bed, will move in a moment, that the patch of light will...
...Bosnia, and pilots take evasive maneuvers to avoid being fired upon. But to eliminate the threat, nato planes would have to attack the air-defense network, a step the alliance is not prepared to take. As long as the air defenses are allowed to operate, the nato allies should brace themselves for more pilots being shot down...
House Master William H. Bossert and other housestaff and students watched while Mossman, strappedto a stretcher and wearing a neck brace and icepack, was wheeled onto an ambulance...
There is some of this romantic, celebratory quality in Memoir from Antproof Case (Harcourt Brace; 514 pages; $24), but reasonableness does not rule. As we meet the novel's main character, he is 80 or so, hiding out in Brazil from real or imagined assassins, writing down his adventures and stashing them in an ant-proof case for his beloved 10-year-old stepson to read when he is older...
Hartl lifted weights every day throughout January and February, but despite the rehab, she must wear a brace when hitting...