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...Musicians and the Uffizi Bacchus, which are. The Bacchus is detached, down to the last dirty fingernail on his pudgy hand: not a god, but a pouting, weary-eyed model in costume, his crown of vine leaves rendered with sparkling exuberance, his flesh slack and tallowy, and half the fruit bruised or rotten...
...pastoral calm. In The Supper at Emmaus, the characters seem ready to come off the wall, as Christ makes his sacramental gesture over the food. This insistence, this feeling of a world trying to burst from the canvas, is epitomized in one detail of the Supper--the basket of fruit, perched on the very brink of the painted table and ready to spill its contents at one's feet. Later, Caravaggio would learn how to combine poses seen in real life with those sanctified by tradition: hence the contrast achieved in the Louvre's Death of the Virgin between...
Pickens has remained a disciplined athlete since college. An avid golfer with a handicap of twelve, he is a light eater who prefers cereal and fresh fruit for breakfast and likes to munch on Granny Smith apples during the day. Aides set out raw carrots as snacks during company meetings. He does not smoke, and he offers employees $6-a-month bonuses to give up the habit. IF YOU MUST SMOKE, reads an embroidered cushion in Mesa's corporate jet, PLEASE STEP OUTSIDE. But he is not averse to an occasional Scotch and soda...
Roach stayed in the Army twelve years, then drifted into other occupations, including the junk business, and in 1972 he found his calling with the gas station and fruit stand. They are situated about 17 miles southwest of Mobile on a two-lane blacktop bleached by the sun to fish-belly white, in a community called Fowl River. After the accident in 1975 gave him a limpy leg, his physician told him to assign his hurt limb to as few chores as possible. So Laura Roach took over the fruit stand, as well as a barbecue pit in summer...
...would bring out eight or nine more checkerboards and play all his opponents at once, never losing. Whole tour buses, making the Southern azalea-magnolia-plantation circuit, were made to wait while their drivers lost to Double-Trouble Roach. And then, early last fall, the Roach gas station and fruit stand had the rug pulled out from under them--by the highway department, of all things...