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...moderne" himself, was Puvis de Chavannes. Traces of Puvis's flat, fresco-like narratives kept turning up in Degas; long afterward, Picasso would base the scrawny, mannered figures of his Blue Period on Puvis, and there even seems to be a foretaste of Guernica in the head of the cow, lowing in pain at the sky, in Puvis's War, 1867, included in this show...
...Tumulty, who was one of the main reporters on this week's cover story about minority whip Newt Gingrich -- and who wrote the accompanying story about House Speaker Tom Foley -- are that in her apprentice years as a journalist she acquired an MBA from Harvard and once covered a cow- milking contest by entering it. Plenty of reporters prove their tenacity by tracking down politicians in rest rooms, coaxing home numbers from prosecutors or outdoing fire fighters on lost sleep. Tumulty has done that; but her toughness reflects a quiet ability to get to the bottom of something, whether...
...Dallas native, meets, I began to doubt O'Connor's wisdom. We get a sample of graffiti "art" from a bad poet named Dirk. We get a someone named Dale's take on the AIDS epidemic, "Basically, its a combination of a virus from a goat and a cow that creates the HIV virus." We get Suzanne, a Vaiden, Mississippi native, speaking on impending apocalypse: "I haven't seen any signs of the Antichrist. But it's kind of scary 'cause everything that happens in Revelations is happening right now. Like you can't tell the difference in the seasons...
...course begins on a half-mile flat that leads into the "cow-path," which is a 200 meter stretch that can be likened to a pit of quick sand. The unfortunate runners then face their first real challenge, known as "bitch hill" to masochistic course veterans, which is in effect a mountain side that never ends...
...Association survey of supermarkets in 19 cities, the average price per lb. of six cuts of beef was just $3.12 this month, the lowest level since July. Because the beef supply remains high and wholesale prices are down, many grocers are able to feature meat at significant discounts. Cow-nnoisseurs take note: the six cuts included in the survey are regular and lean ground beef, boneless round steak, boneless top sirloin, T-bone steak and boneless chuck roll roast...