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...shot-put medalist turned Hollywood actor, best known for playing the lead in 1935's The New Adventures of Tarzan; in Los Angeles. Brix was not the most famous Tarzan--an injury forced him to cede that role to Johnny Weissmuller-- but he was the favorite of Tarzan writer Edgar Rice Burroughs. Later, as Bruce Bennett, his stage name, he appeared in such acclaimed films of the 1940s as The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, with Humphrey Bogart, and the Joan Crawford classic Mildred Pierce...
...Thoughts on Music,” Jobs outlined three alternatives and ultimately decided that the most feasible option was to remove any encoding software.Yet recording industry officials are still pursuing the approval of the PERFORM Act in Congress. After the introduction of the bill, Warner Music Group CEO Edgar Bronfman said in a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, “What is clear to everyone is that these services no longer resemble and will increasingly stray from our collective understanding of what constitutes a traditional radio service.”He is correct in noting that these new forms...
...only decision bolder than the paint is the museum’s choice to host this show in its prime gallery space on the first floor. It was most recently home to exhibitions Sharon Lockhart, Frank Stella, and Edgar Degas—emerging, legendary, and eternal stars, respectively...
...both a horse and fans in constant pain, you must admire how he inspired the public, showing that horse racing, now a marginalized pursuit on the American sporting landscape, can still have an impact. Just 200 yards into the Preakness, Barbaro's right hind leg gruesomely gave out. Jockey Edgar Prado's quick reflexes - he immediately halted the colt - saved Barbaro's life right there. The record crowd of 118,402 at Baltimore's Pimlico Race Course fell completely silent - many wept. He was rushed to a veterinary hospital in Pennsylvania, where fans sent flowers, religious medals, fruit baskets, flowers...
Unlike such contemporaries as Renoir, Whistler and Toulouse-Lautrec, Edgar Degas (1834--1917) has inspired few legends and has never come to seem larger than life or as colorful as his art. In Edgar Degas: Life and Work (Rizzoli; 343 pages; $70), British Critic Denys Sutton shows why such comparative obscurity would have suited his subject perfectly. Degas was a reserved, withdrawn soul who poured most of his energies into painting and drawing. There were rumors that the artist, a life-long bachelor, did not care much for women. The evidence, Sutton decides, is inconclusive. But look at the pictures...