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Lebanon appears to be less of a bargain. While civil wars in Central. America are tragedies of modern history, the melting pot that is Lebanon has been at it for nearly fifteen centuries...
...Fifteen minutes after a rosy sun lifted over the pastures of Normandy, khaki-clad U.S. and British troops began to pour ashore-the British on the left near Havre, the Americans on the right near Cherbourg...
...artist of Manet's order has many profiles, not all of them visible at the same moment. Fifteen years ago, it was more or less obligatory for American critics to focus on the "radical" formal aspects of Manet's work and, in particular, on his use of flat (or at least shallow) pictorial space. Lone figures like The Fifer and Matador Saluting were posed against a background too flat to be a room, too brown to be outdoors; it was no more than a neutral backdrop, an exaggerated version of the depthless space behind Velásquez...
...been traveling more in the past decade or so, especially in other European countries, and have been introduced to different adaptations of similar raw materials. They are also watching their weight. Good Italian cooking has never been particularly heavy, but people now want to cut down on its bounty. Fifteen years ago, ordering a half-portion of pasta was uncouth; now it is common. Nino Castorina, owner of Bologna's Notai, serves a slice of beef that is only 60% as large as what he used to offer; he is not economizing, just giving customers what they want...
...surface, Pauline at the Beach shows the various relationships developing between several characters who meet on the beach. Fifteen-year-old Pauline travels to the seaside with her absolutely gorgeous cousin Marion who, though much older, has very immature ideas about love. Pauline is more down-to-earth than her cousin and has few if any illusions...