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Rock-Hard Canvases. Vlaminck did his best oils in 1905 and 1906, when he lived in the small Seine-side Paris suburb of Chatou. The burly, Belgian-descended artist had been a professional cyclist and cabaret violinist who taught himself to paint. In later years, he recalled: "I was a barbarian, tender and full of violence. I translated by instinct, without any method." In fact, his method of squeezing colors directly from the paint tubes onto the canvas was largely inspired by viewing the Van Gogh exhibition of 1901. In addition, portraits such as L'Enfant Madeline betray...
There are occasional flickers of intentional humor, as when a cyclist looks inside a shack and wonders, "Who did your decorating, Sargent Shriver?" The best laughs are caused by the scenes of violence, when the Indians decide they would rather be Redskins than dead-skins and beat the living Hell's Angels out of the motorcycle gang. It all ends as it began, in chaos, proving itself ideal kapok to fill out the lower end of double bills in drive...
...with his legs and coasting. When he rode it into town, the citizens of Karlsruhe hooted and chased him off the streets. One hundred and fifty years later, the plight of the bicyclist is still dire. "People in pickup trucks throw beer cans at us," says Washington, D.C., Cyclist Ray Matthews Jr. "Motorists keep trying to push us off the road. We have to face continuous abuse and mistreatment...
...entrants, 17 finished. Once cyclist, riding an 1180 sprint cycle, had a flat tire, and two were injured when their bikes slipped on wet trolley tracks. The last one vanished entirely. If you know him and he's safe, tell somebody, so the timers can go home...
...heroic amount of guts" needed to sing Wagnerian roles. Put in the U.S., it means that Thomas is the first and most notable of what appears to be a new stable of American heldentenors: men with the projection of a foghorn, the endurance of a marathon cyclist and the range of an ICBM. Most have an ego to match...