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Brown was awarded a technical knock-out over Lopez after dropping him to the canvas in the 11th round and finally pounding him into a daze in the 13th.
The exhibition opens with a selection of works done at the close of the last century, including an interesting and painterly canvas by Hans Von Marees. It is actually frustrating that a painter such as Lovis Corinth who produces as charming a watercolor as Girl on Bed Reading will do...
¶According to the script, Argentina's Antonino Rocca was one of the "heroes," and California's Dr. Jerry Graham was one of the "villains" in the professional wrestling show at Madison Square Garden. But wrestlers are notorious hams, and few fans were surprised when Rocca attacked Graham...
...point of such parables as that of the fool who walks past the bird's nest (see color) needed no explaining in his time. To satisfy an age when connoisseurs would spend hours before a painting "trying to find the owl in the woods." Bruegel packed his canvases with scenes of birds on the wing, half-hidden bird snares, distant village-green ballplayers, to give his viewers all the delights and surprises of a country stroll. To get his rustic costumes, characters and gestures just right, Bruegel liked to dress in peasant's garb, attended the village festivals...
To some French writers the production of novels is like the eating of salted almonds-they just cannot stop. Balzac turned out 17 volumes in compiling his Comédie Humaine, which pinned down 19th century life. Jules Remains, in his Hommes de Bonne Volonte, needed 27 books just to...