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...painting—the area with the wall and the columns, for instance, or the central wall of another “Subway” (1937)—and to note the textured variety and depth of his solid blocks of color and the sudden contrast but never brutal or indelicate transition between two color areas...
...broken. The idea took root that war's central purpose was to "find and engage (the enemy) in order to end the entire business as quickly as possible." Subtitled Landmark Battles in the Rise of Western Power, Hanson's latest book traces the evolution of this "ideology of brutal frontal assault." His case studies range from the Greeks' destruction of a Persian fleet at the Battle of Salamis (480 B.C.) to the U.S. victory (in strictly military terms: the author acknowledges the political defeat) over the Viet Cong's Tet offensive...
...came to visit, he asked me to translate the words for him. Chuckling heartily, he pointed to his nose. "Just like me," he said, suddenly somber. "You have to be a little crazy to stand up to the Chinese government, but it's nuts not to." Exiled after 18 brutal years in prison, Wei was still as defiant as he was in 1978, when he decided to publicly avow his conviction that China could never truly modernize without democratic reform...
...BLACK HAWK DOWN This is big-time, big-budget moviemaking at its best. A hugely complex re-creation of a 1993 special forces fire fight in Somalia, it is masterfully orchestrated by director Ridley Scott. Brutal, bloody, breathless in pace, it shows us modern warfare's newest, ugliest face and finally becomes, like all great war movies, an antiwar movie--at least in the beholder's savaged...
...Indonesia's tragedy that such stories of slaughter have become numbingly commonplace since the collapse of the three-decade dictatorship of then President Suharto in 1998. The brutal military repression that kept a dizzying range of religious, cultural and ethnic hatreds in check until then has all but vanished ?with sometimes horrifyingly bloody results. But the story of Sulawesi is different, and what happens there in the coming weeks is critical, not just to the future of President Megawati Sukarnoputri and the country's 210 million people but to Indonesia's neighbors. The ramifications might be felt thousands of miles...