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Nobody disputes Caravaggio's immense achievement. Yet it's hard not to wonder what he might have accomplished if he had lived into old age - say 45? As a young man he amassed a police record worthy of a rap star: arrests, citations, imprisonments, most of them connected to brawls and knife fights. In May 1606, when he was around 34, he killed a man with a sword, in a fight over a wager placed on a tennis match. Badly wounded, facing a murder charge and a sentence of death, he fled Rome, the scene of his early triumphs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Dark Master | 2/27/2005 | See Source »

...marvelous kind of grimy vibe to it, and the beat hops handily! I’d love to see a collaboration between Usher and Justin Timberlake at this point, because they’ve developed very similar characters that have little left to do but brawl...

Author: By Leon Neyfakh, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 'Total' Eclipse of the Heart | 2/24/2005 | See Source »

Sandel launched the intellectual brawl with a series of not-so-subtle allusions to the public relations fiasco sparked last month by Summers’ remarks about “innate differences” between the sexes...

Author: By Daniel J. Hemel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Academic Stars Clash in Course | 2/8/2005 | See Source »

...midnight and 4 a.m., casualties stream into the Queen's Medical Center emergency department: a motionless clubber on a stretcher whom the Kevlar-clad ambulance crew wheels straight to a treatment room; a youth whose injuries - a lacerated hand and a bite on his arm - were sustained in a brawl outside a pub; and a tipsy woman in high-heeled boots who hurt her ankle on a cobblestone walkway. It's a typical Friday night in the center of Nottingham, a city of 267,000 in middle England where on weekends 50,000 people roll up to more than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Battle Of The Binge | 1/30/2005 | See Source »

...Hotel's worth of character clich??s: the grizzled patrolman (Brian Dennehy) who's ready to retire; the woman cop (Drea de Matteo) who can out-tough the macho men; the motormouth con (John Leguizamo) who sees ways of escape in the encroaching anarchy. This bunch could start a brawl in a bus line. But they need to become a community fast to fight an enemy whose siege tactics are as unfathomable as they are unstoppable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: Repeat Assault, with Vigor | 1/16/2005 | See Source »

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