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Kennedy biographer Adam Clymer writes that his brother John later said, “If it hadn’t been for [my father’s outburst], UUsdfjsdUnivTeddy might be just a playboy today. But my father cracked down on him at a crucial time in his life...
Soon enough, so was he. Paris would place before Modigliani its full arsenal of new ideas. Like Picasso, he would make a crucial encounter there with African wood carvings. Their wild distortion of the human face and figure would point him in a new direction--for one thing, toward the asymmetrical almond eyes, sometimes painted without pupils, that became one of the signature tropes of his portraiture. Unlike Picasso, he used African sculpture not as a route into his fears and sexual obsessions but as a much more benign vocabulary of forms that could be joined with other influences...
...Popular Asian films, like their counterparts in North America, have a crucial movie element that is often lost in Cannes's worship of directors: star quality. Choi had already vaulted to celebrity in the Korean blockbusters Shiri and Failan. Jackie Chan, Chow Yun-fat, Michelle Yeoh and Jet Li were bulwarks of Hong Kong cinema, before they decamped to Hollywood. And in India, actors like Amitabh Bachchan are near-deities. (Alas, the delirious seductions of Bollywood musicals still elude the Cannes programmers?no Indian pop musical has been invited to compete for the Palme d'Or in nearly a half...
...Iraqi government, the U.S. is doing itself and the Iraqis a tremendous disservice. What is called for is a pro-U.S. Iraqi leader who has the brains, drive and charisma to keep the country united and energized to overcome the hurdles ahead. Until this crucial person is found, the future looks grim. Abhishek Bhattacharyya Mumbai...
...June 6, that made no sense either, especially once God smiled by making the weather bad enough to convince Rommel and the Germans that no invasion was coming but good enough, during a crucial 36-hour window, to make it possible after all. It was raining sideways the day before, Eisenhower recalled, as the commanders listened to weather reports. Assured that the Allies would have to pass up this optimal alignment of tides and moon because of the impenetrable storm, Rommel got to slip home to celebrate his wife's birthday. Wars are won and lost over decisions...