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...window, from inside a room. One first sees it in 1896, in a small, unremarkable study of an open door giving onto the sea in Brittany. It reappears, in a way that promises its eventual form, in a small picture from 1901-02, Studio Under the Eaves -- a brown, dim room with a blaze of sacramental light at the end, a glimpse of apricot wall and flowering tree. From then on it will appear whenever he is at full pitch: in The Open Window, 1905, as he is creating the speckled, radically colored world of Fauvism at Collioure...
...rate, hard to go one up on Whoopi. Actor colleagues in a San Francisco rep company didn't succeed in the early '80s, when they nicknamed her for a dim-witted novelty-store joke. "I was very flatulent," she explains with an angelic smile. "So for a while it was 'Whoopi Cushion.' Then, for a touch of class, 'Whoopi Couchant.' So I thought, Why not? I'll be Whoopi. But Whoopi Johnson just doesn't cut it." (You figure that one out; her name then was Caryn Johnson.) So she rummaged among her family names and came up with some...
Journalists have long joked that the headline MIDEAST PEACE HOPES DIM could run over a story written today, next year or, probably, in A.D. 2030. That may no longer be the case. As the intermittent Israeli-Arab talks that began in Madrid 10 months ago resumed in Washington, Palestinians and representatives of Israel's new Labor-led government got down to serious discussions over a substantive matter: how a proposed elected council might be empowered to bring a measure of self-government to the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip. Eager to tone down animosity, Jerusalem's negotiators have...
...Elizabeth von Arnim. She wrote Enchanted April nearly 70 years ago, around the time Virginia Woolf was lobbying for a room of her own. Von Arnim thought bigger: Why not a villa? Bring four restless Englishwomen to a castle near Portofino to shake off London's damp climate and dim proprieties...
...bathhouses where AIDS was spread by promiscuous, unprotected sex have been closed in many cities, either by government crackdown or just by a declining marketplace. The same thing happened to most of the "back room" bars where, in dim or unlit areas, patrons had anonymous sex. But at some establishments the era of reckless abandon never ended, and at others it is coming back...