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The ease of working in oil also invited painters to experiment with rapid, summary brushwork, often to produce passages of sketchy, indeterminate form. This was the technique that Tintoretto above all made his own. Thirty years younger than Titian, the son of a dyer - hence the name - Tintoretto was the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Renaissance Venice's Big Men on Canvas | 4/10/2009 | See Source »

The Hard Weather Boating Party, by Naomi Wallace, suffers from something like the opposite problem. The play knows where it's going; the problem is getting there. Three apparently unrelated men gather in a seedy motel room to plan a murder. Yet the first act is padded out with mostly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Louisville: Where New Plays Go to Be Born | 4/10/2009 | See Source »

The tens of millions of people who do not want to ride on airplanes are getting their way. The recession has hit the airline industry with a rapidly growing attrition of customers. As a reaction, carriers are taking planes out of service as quickly as possible and letting go as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Boeing Proves A Poorly Run Company Can Still Do Badly | 4/10/2009 | See Source »

But members of Congress who are overseeing the bailout funds question what spin doctors have to do with Liddy's stated mission. Representative Elijah E. Cummings, a Democrat on the House Oversight Committee that has investigated AIG, called the firm's p.r. payroll "a prime example of AIG misusing funds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is AIG Spending Too Much on Public Relations? | 4/10/2009 | See Source »

There are thousands of Mvezos in South Africa, hundreds of Mthathas and hundreds of big city townships too. In 2006, the South African Institute of Race Relations estimated 4.2 million South Africans were living on $1 a day in 2005, up from 1.9 million in 1996. In its 2009 election...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why South Africa's Over the Rainbow | 4/9/2009 | See Source »

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