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...least, that's the received opinion about the work of his final decades: all those pillowy nudes, sunning their abundant selves in dappled glades; all those peachy girls, strumming guitars and idling in bourgeois parlors; all that pink. In the long twilight of his career, the old man found his way to a kissable classicism that modern eyes can find awfully hard to take. (See the top 10 art exhibitions...
...Another excerpt from John Otis' Law of the Jungle can be found here...
...word of the fantastic riches spread, more and more troops began scouring the jungle floor, hacking at the earth like overcaffeinated grave diggers. The blue barrels bulged with Colombian pesos but they also found yellow containers filled with U.S. currency. How much was there? Months later, a report by the office of Colombia's inspector general estimated that the containers held $14 million in U.S. and Colombian currency. But in the same report, several troops testified that the final haul exceeded $43 million. One government investigator said the figure was much higher - more than $80 million...
...rearguard position, outwitted the enemy, and kept themselves alive. Then there was the money. Sure, they had struck out in their search for Keith, Marc and Tom. But referring to the twenty-, fifty-, and hundred-dollar bills they'd dug up, Suárez pointed out they had already found three gringos: Andrew Jackson, Ulysses S. Grant, and Benjamin Franklin...
...Another excerpt from John Otis' Law of the Jungle can be found here...