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...like about the divine lifestyle: a constant round of wild parties, battles, adventures and seductions. The stories gave Titian a chance to luxuriate in glowing nakedness, gleaming jewelry, strokable fur, lush lawns and tangled forests. He could also pour sincere emotion into the Christian story, producing tender madonnas or dark scenes of Jesus' torture and death. To David Jaffé, senior curator at the National Gallery, Titian's empathy was his distinctive gift. When he depicts a beautiful woman, he says, "you can feel his real admiration. If he is painting a tragic subject, like a martyrdom, he is sharing...
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...chic Palestinian woman in dark glasses strides toward an Israeli checkpoint separating Ramallah from Jerusalem. Armed soldiers shout at her to stop, but she quickens her pace. Then she removes her glasses. Her gaze mesmerizes the guards. As she passes, they wilt in submission--and the tower collapses...
Barry is a smart writer with a Cassandra's gift for dark-edged prognostication. The story should be depressing, but the author manages to make it extremely funny. When Hack goes to the police, they give him a choice: he can be arrested, or he can subcontract the murders to them at a perfectly reasonable rate...
...gains hasn't yet come up with a coherent plan for economic reform. No, the organization with the most clout these days is an obscure legislative group called the Mediation Committee. Meeting in a soundproof Berlin conference room with no natural light - it's referred to as the Dark Room by pundits - this secretive political council hammers out agreements on legislation that has been adopted by the lower house of parliament, the Bundestag, but rejected by the upper house, the Bundesrat. While the SPD won control of the Bundestag in September, last week's elections gave the CDU increased power...