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...played show-me-what-you-got for decades, continually rolling out works meant to show up the other guy. Leonardo, Michelangelo and Raphael all kept a cool eye on each other. And there's a brisk little chapter in the history of Abstract Expressionism that could fairly be called De Kooning vs. Pollock...
...when the 60-year-old Titian was one of the best-known painters in Europe, the 30-year-old Tintoretto staked his claim to dominance with Miracle of the Slave, a tour de force crowd scene (not included in the Boston show) that he shrewdly unveiled while Titian was away from Venice so that the old man couldn't mobilize local opinion against it. With Tintoretto, the harmony and serenity of Bellini are entirely a thing of the past. Figures whirl, somersault and lunge like darts in and out of the picture. The palette is iridescent, and at close range...
...were ... a virgin?) Give writer-director Jody Hill two cheers for asking: What if we did a workplace comedy, and the focus of our attention and sympathy were on a fellow - played by Rogen, everyone's favorite jovial slob - who is this close to the simmering psycho Robert De Niro played in Taxi Driver? The gun love, the quiet surliness, the loner status, the head whisperings, the mistaken fashioning of other people's motives into paranoid scenarios - all echo the violent cabbie in Martin Scorsese's movie, whose script was inspired by the diary of Arthur Bremer, the would...
...Travis pointed past the empty cul-de-sac toward a huge, silent box of a building. "That's where I worked," he said, "the plant with no smoke coming out of it." Even without a college degree, he had been making $24 an hour there, at the Boise Cascade paper mill, which was the town's largest employer. And then he was fired, along with most of the other employees, in January. Kristy had been running a home day-care center, but that income vanished when laid-off millworkers started taking care of their kids themselves. Douglas...
...want to tell you we’re doing fine, but we’re nervous about Nick because he really did hold the team together this year,” says Scalise, who will, for now, take the de facto role of captain as the eldest varsity player. “It’ll be a different game, but I think...