Word: carras
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...flight of Nicholas Leeson might have provided a juicy plot for Maugham or Le Carra. The young high flier's dizzying speculations on Singapore's International Monetary Exchange roiled international currency markets as well as the Tokyo stock market, and mortally wounded Barings bank, one of Britain's most venerable financial institutions, which was unable to cover losses of more than $1 billion. As the extent of the damage became apparent, Leeson, 28, and his wife Lisa Sims, 23, fled their apartment in Singapore and spent a week on the lam. Detained last Wednesday as he arrived in Frankfurt, Germany...
Then he started doing other pictorial styles as subjects of his own. Picasso, Fernand Leger, Carlo Carra, Max Beckmann and so on. Then kitsch Modernism, as imagined by cartoonists. The trouble with these versions of Modernist classics 'n' clinkers is their sameness. After a while, it isn't very interesting to be shown that just about anything can be turned into a Lichtenstein, congealed in his cryogenic style. There's none of the engaged imagination, the sense of a transforming mind at work, that one gets in, say, Miro's wild versions of a 17th century Dutch interior, down...