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Jeanne Calment, 121, isn't just the world's oldest living human. She's the world's oldest rapper. The acquaintance of Van Gogh has cut a record, Maitresse du Temps, in which she talks about her life over rap, techno and dance music. Some of the proceeds from the CD will go toward buying a minibus for her nursing home. Next up for Calment is, of course, a video...
...places where you see people interacting together in front of the computer," Garber says. She and Lareau explored a showcase of Van Gogh's paintings titled "Starry Night"--one of Cybersmith's 50 CD ROM titles...
...mill and steeple must have affected him right from the start. The momentum of his work begins with landscape--the delicate screens and friezes of trees above watery meadows, in their pearly gray light. The color explodes in 1908 with his Mill in Sunlight, an orgiastic response to Van Gogh, blazing with flakes of crimson and ultramarine against a sky of lemon yellow and pale blue; it is stabilized in another painting of a red mill done in 1911--its dark red trunk rising patriarchally against deep blue sky, spreading its austere vanes like the arms of Moses...
...L.B.J. and Richard Nixon would be labeled "worst cases" on any EQ scale of Presidents. Each was touched with political genius, yet each met with disaster. "To some extent," says Greenstein, "this is a function of the extreme aspects of their psyches; they are the political versions of Van Gogh, who does unbelievable paintings and then cuts...
...Angeles, and now at Johns Hopkins. As a fellow at Oxford, she pioneered research into the link between creativity and manic depression. In concerts, television programs and a lay book, Touched with Fire (1993), she has popularized that research, identifying as manic depressive such luminaries as Vincent van Gogh, Robert Schumann and Lord Byron...