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...been put down by Ingres with a jackhammer. By 1892, the year with which the LACMA show starts, he had drifted back toward a fluctuating Impressionist brushstroke. Firmly contoured or flickering, his softly sculpted women are as full-bodied as Doric columns. This was one of the qualities that caught Picasso's eye, especially after his first trip to Italy, in 1917. He would assimilate Renoir alongside his own sources in Iberian sculpture and elsewhere to come up with a frankly more powerful, even haunting, amalgam of the antique and the modern in paintings like Woman in a White...
...recently been used most sparingly: on the battlefield. That started last year, when Gates removed Army General Dave McKiernan from command of U.S. forces in Afghanistan, ending his career. Since then, several lower-ranking Army officers have received letters of reprimand - a potential career ender - for commanding U.S. troops caught and killed in ambushes in Afghanistan...
...presented themselves as teachers who would be putting on a play at their high school. For $2,000, the instructor gave them a crash course in Method acting. The amateur players passed their first test. Though he wondered about his students' high-tech radios, the theater professor never caught on that he was teaching a pack of army agents. (See pictures of FARC in the jungle...
...fake nurses in the aisle pretended to be knocked off balance. She landed in Cesar's lap. "Like a gentleman," she said, "he caught me and then said, 'You can ride with me.'" The phony medic then leaned into the guerrilla, asking him if he had ever flown on a helicopter. With Cesar deep in conversation, the nurse extracted herself from his lap. Then, another agent, a former boxer, moved in for the knockout. He punched the guerrilla in the throat and bashed his head against the wall of the helicopter three times. At the other end of the aircraft...
...find out what at least six doctors here couldn't decipher; a doctor in Michigan diagnosed my problem in five minutes. "You have a case of vernal conjunctivitis," the cornea specialist told me. "If your doctors over there had looked under your eyelid they would have caught it, or at least they should have." (See "The Year in Health...