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...Arts, curated by Wendy Baron and Richard Shone (until mid-February, then at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam), is the first deep look at Sickert the British have had in almost 30 years. In America, he is virtually unknown. No museum has ever acknowledged him, and if you dip for his work into the big public collections, let alone the private ones, you will come up empty. Ditto in France, where he spent a lot of his working life...
...Boyne, for example, you can take a break from your skiing for a cozy fireside lunch in the lodge or a leisurely dip in the outdoor hot tub before returning to the slopes for a full afternoon, or even night, of skiing. (The slopes are often illuminated until well into the evening...
That may come as a surprise to those who have read Feynman's two popular autobiographies, Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! and What Do You Care What Other People Think?, or to those who watched him dip a bit of rubber in ice water during the Challenger accident investigation, making it crack and proving that cold temperatures had led to the space shuttle's 1986 crash. Feynman's public image was that of a skirt-chasing, bongo-playing wise guy, a man who thought he was smarter than anyone else, and who therefore probably deserved to be taken down...
...scene was repeated from Texas to Ohio and Maryland as the freak storms, caused by a southerly dip in the jet stream that slammed cold Canadian air against warm, moist air from the Gulf of Mexico, zigzagged across the Southeast. High winds tossed a school bus full of children off a road in North Carolina (five kids and the driver were admitted to a hospital) and tore the steeple from a Georgia church as the congregation sang Amazing Grace. Still, in Florence, Mississippi, fate smiled on a six-day-old girl, ripped from her father's arms when a twister...
Meanwhile, Bush saw his approval ratings dip to new lows. Swing voters assembled in G.O.P. focus groups complained that Bush's happy talk about the economy made him seem out of touch. Some also contrasted Bush's energetic conduct of foreign policy with his fecklessness at home...