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Even so, he's not the type to keep an ordinary household. His downstairs parlor is crammed with tall cartons that contain the stretched canvases he has delivered regularly from London. On the stairway leading to his studio, somebody has tracked bright red paint up the carpet. Hockney lives here with John Fitzherbert, his companion for more than a decade, and a studio assistant, Jean-Pierre Goncalves de Lima. Hockney still keeps a place in London and another in L.A., where he plans to return in May. But until then he's in Yorkshire to paint landscapes through all four...
Could the crisis have been avoided? By missing or ignoring opportunities to contain the controversy at an early stage, the editors of Jyllands-Posten, Muslim leaders and Danish politicians all contributed to the notion that the dispute was the product of irreconcilable cultural differences. The most obvious centered on the Islamic taboo on images of the Prophet: devout Muslims consider any depiction of the Prophet blasphemous. But the Danish cartoons stirred outrage among moderate Muslims less because the cartoons depicted Muhammad than because of the way in which the Prophet was portrayed. "Eleven of the series were problematic...
...that's $375 for every person on the island. But bitter squabbles over how to share the cash?last summer, nationalist Sinhalese and Buddhist monks claimed giving aid to the Tigers legitimized terrorism?only aggravated divisions. Hagrup Haukland, Norwegian chief of the Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission, can barely contain his frustration over the recent fighting. "It's madness," he exclaims...
...errors, Harvard slowly increased the gap and held off several Vassar mini-rallies to coast to a 30-20 victory. The Brewers were more persistent in the second game, but the Crimson continued its offensive surge, registering a .457 hitting percentage for the frame. The Vassar block struggled to contain McCrone and junior middle hitter Andy Nelson, allowing Harvard to capture game two by a score of 30-23. “We came in fired up and ready to play,” Weitzen said. “We got to have some fun while we were out there...
...riding accident rather than to a whale. If the events that define a character's personality and interaction with the world have been greatly embellished or never occurred, a story loses its meaning and power to move. Frey's A Million Little Pieces cannot, as the author espouses, contain emotional truth, since the principal character, Frey, is not true to himself. If the defining moments of the book are falsehoods, Frey is lying to his readers. James Sheil Dublin "The Trouble With Memoirs" was extremely hard on Frey. You suggested that the author has not recovered from the problem...