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...were fully realized in his triptychs. They represent one of the greatest efforts of the symbolic imagination in all 20th century art, a sort of theatrum mundi, or world theater, in which the follies and tragedies of Europe, along with its pining for a utopian order on the very brink of its collapse, were given an unrelentingly vivid allegorical form...
...first volume of John Richardson's biography of Pablo Picasso, published in 1991, took the artist from birth to the brink of a masterpiece. In the second volume, A Life of Picasso: 1907-1917 (Random House; 500 pages; $55), Richardson begins with the painting that revolutionized 20th century art and goes on to portray the most productive and aesthetically innovative decade of his subject's life. Reading this story is akin to being allowed behind the scenes at an apotheosis...
Meanwhile, death stalks the camps. "We are on the brink of a catastrophe," says Sadako Ogata, U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees. "Unless we can deliver food, water and other basic assistance to the people in the camps...they will end up dying. There is no time to waste." In 1994, when refugees converged on Goma and cholera broke out, Ogata issued a similar warning. By the time the world responded, some 50,000 of them, mostly women and children, were dead...
...years--lies across the Channel. For if Galliano is famous for his sizzling sense of romance, McQueen delivers exquisite tailoring and "kick-arse clothes." And both newcomers pack an intangible in their sewing kits: they radiate a genius, confidence and eccentricity that make people think they are on the brink of reinventing fashion...
With a resume lined with lobbying successes for high-tech constituents, Eshoo will be tough to beat. A member of the Commerce Committee, which oversees bills relating to electronics and biotechnology, she drafted the Online Parental Control Act of 1996. A further irritant to Ben Brink's online challenge, Eshoo won this year's Semiconductor Industry Association's Congressional Leadership Award...