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...provincial French bureaucrat so dedicated to his gifted children that he moved the family to Paris to further their education. (It paid off twice. Camille's younger brother would grow up to be the famous poet, diplomat and archconservative Catholic Paul Claudel.) Rodin was 41, on the brink of fame after decades of frustration. He was also a dedicated satyr. The dancer Isadora Duncan, whom he would meet some years later, once said that whenever they were together she felt like "a nymph in front of a centaur." Though Rodin had a longtime mistress, Rose Beuret, and a whole string...
Foster, channeling the role that she honed in “Silence of the Lambs,” radiates the taut energy and strained composure of a woman possessed, teetering capriciously on the brink of her own sanity. However, Foster occasionally overshoots the intensity of her performance, and the earnestness of her emoting occasionally borders on the hyper-frantic: she clenches her jaw a little too tightly and relies a bit too heavily on her staple big-eyes-welling-up-with-tears expressions...
...Photos and Graphics • Photos: Gaza on the Brink • Photos: Israel Divided • Photos: Power Struggles • Map: The Gaza Pullout...
...Photos and Graphics • Photos: Gaza on the Brink • Photos: Israel Divided • Photos: Power Struggles • Map: The Gaza Pullout...
Some bears are thriving to the point where they can still be hunted; others are wobbling on the brink of extinction...