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...While appreciating Filonov's stunning technique, critics have sometimes had a harder time with his imagery. Many of his works are populated with dreadful faces or menacing animals. They often depict desperate figures against a grim industrial landscape, as in the Transformation of an Intellectual (Transformation of Man) (1914-15). Yet Filonov also could paint works brimming with optimism and beauty, such as Formula of Spring (1923) or Landscape (Formula of Spring...
...grim political situation in Lebanon today stands in marked contrast to the heady optimism, two years ago, of the so-called Cedar Revolution, the month-long series of street demonstrations triggered by the killing of Rafik Hariri and 22 other people in a massive Valentine's Day truck bomb explosion, which tore through Beirut's plush seafront hotel district. Hariri had been on the verge of leading an electoral campaign aimed at ending the dominance of Lebanese politics by neighboring Syria, a goal that many Lebanese believe cost him his life. "The Syrian regime killed my father," said Saad Hariri...
...wise priests who forged the Serbian medieval empire centuries ago, before the Ottoman army crushed them in the epic battle of 1389. That was the image I learned in school. Instead, my 14-year-old schoolmates and I saw that this mythical and magic land was teeming with grim, foreign-looking folks who made us feel distinctly unwelcome. And we couldn't understand why they seemed so angry and miserable when everyone in communist Yugoslavia was supposed to be happy in ethnic harmony. When I went back, much later, to cover the dirty war between Serbian security forces...
...That grim assessment, made only hours before yet another downing, suggests problems ahead if the U.S. decides to fill the skies above Baghdad with helicopters as part of its surge strategy. It's a safe bet, given the flurry of downings, that U.S. military helicopters will be flying less frequently in the days to come - and more frequently in the nights to come...
...This trial is medieval," said grim-faced Charlie Hebdo publisher Philippe Val before the court case opened. "If we can't criticize religion anymore, there will be no women's rights, no birth control and no gay rights...