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...just months before war broke out, Marc found it impossible to ignore the tense conditions in Germany. His painting "The Poor Country of Tyrol" is a stark contrast to his earlier depictions of equine bliss. With its chalky gray background, desolate black outlines and weak streaks of color, Marc's depiction of this disputed territory is a chilling premonition of the destruction the war was to bring. Marc's horses have not disappeared from the landscape, but they have lost all of their vitality. Their stick-like heads lowered, they serve more as symbols of the unhappy land rather than...
...After war officially broke out in Germany, Marc joined the army, filled with idealistic hopes that a war could transform society, could liberate it from the trappings of bourgeois culture. Only three years after painting "The Stables" and "The Poor Country of Tyrol," he was killed in action, dying embittered by the reality of war that surrounded him. Marc's horses, those wild and elegant and utterly essential beasts, cannot, then, be seen without a certain sense of poignancy; for all their vital strength, they are part of a very fragile vision. They provide a glimpse into an idyllic world...
...running out of time for feckless moaning. Only days to go. They paid their money - what's our choice? The 1960 analogy is disconcerting. That election came after the relatively serene Eisenhower years. And pretty soon after 1960, all hell broke loose - assassinations, riots, war, the glorious '60s. And the onset of the dark, ruined presidencies - Lyndon Johnson's, Richard Nixon...
...parents: "The music, our shared affection for it, became a private language of the afternoon, a whole vocabulary of joy." But when Rich was seven, his parents split up, a stigmatizing act in 1950s suburban Washington, D.C. His mother was remarried, to a volatile lawyer who beat Rich and broke her down into sad resignation. As he sought the escape of the theater, Rich's love of the stage flowered--abetted, ironically, by his stepfather, who subsidized his trips to new shows in Washington and New York City...
...must admit that when the news broke last week that over-the-counter medications I've been taking since childhood could kill me, I approached the story more as a consumer than as a doctor or journalist. What do you do when an FDA advisory committee of scientists recommends the ban of an ingredient contained in hundreds of popular decongestants and appetite suppressants, citing new evidence linking it to hemorrhagic strokes caused by bleeding in the brain...