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...Kooning: An American Master (Knopf; 732 pages), you get a full sense of de Kooning's quiet charm and his rollicking genius. What you also grasp is his stupendous gift fOr self-destruction. Mark Stevens, the art critic for New York magazine, and his wife, writer Annalyn Swan, have produced a superb biography, thorough and surefooted. It's a book full of nuanced readings of de Kooning's work and sympathetic but dry-eyed accounts of his very disordered life, especially in the 1970s and '80s. Those were the years when he was treated as a national treasure, even...
...none of America's key interests can be achieved without allies of weight. There is no going it alone when it comes to Iranian and North Korean nukes, Islamic terror or peace in the Middle East. Above all, be true to your realist faith, whose first commandment insists: Thy grasp shalt not exceed thy reach...
...character in L’Orfeo] Speranza must have really felt. Preparation for this role ultimately involved educating myself on the particular style of music. I knew shamefully little going into this project, but to be able to perform this type of music, I really had to work to grasp the method behind it (not that I am claiming to have become an expert in any way). Admittedly, I’m still working on solidifying this. Hopefully I’ll have figured it out by Thursday...
...plays are pretty simple,” he says. “The coach did a good job in making sure everyone knew what they were doing. [The offense] is pretty easy to grasp...
ROLL YOUR OWN Choose suitcases with wheels and several handles. You'll still have to carry your luggage from time to time, but wheels will lighten the load, and having several handles will make bags easier to grasp...