Word: jacob
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...Avignon. Richardson is a born storyteller, with a vivid sense of detail and character that enables him to deal with the large cast of players entangled in Picasso's early life, from obscure Catalan artists, shady French art dealers and questing Russian collectors to writers like Alfred Jarry, Max Jacob, Guillaume Apollinaire and that redoubtable, droning narcissist, the Miss Piggy of the American expatriate avant-garde, Gertrude Stein...
...they are not there as mere background; their impact on Picasso, their role in the formation of his ideas and imagery, is carefully assessed. One sees, for instance, what Picasso's work got from his "odd couple" friendship with his diametric opposite, the mercurial, spiritually obsessed Jewish homosexual Jacob: it was the vein of mystical imagery, the fascination with arcana, the tarot and the figure of the artist as Hermes Trismegistus, that pervades the Blue Period and culminates in his first masterpiece, La Vie, 1903. Likewise, Richardson is very shrewd about Picasso's relations with Stein, pointing...
...favored treatment for the customers of big banks was a heated issue last week, as consumers and politicians braced for a possible wave of new banking failures. "The situation is patently unfair -- just plain wrong," said Henry Gonzalez, the Texas Democrat who heads the House Banking Committee. Concurred John Jacob, president of the National Urban League, which lost more than $200,000 at Freedom National because of the government's double standard: "I think it is grossly discriminatory against banks that happen to be small." Amid the outcry, the FDIC said it was reviewing its policy at Freedom National...
Such high-dose therapy is perilous. Until the transplanted marrow replenishes the patient's supply of white blood cells, she is highly vulnerable to infection. Jacob Bitran, Crossley's oncologist, believes that the procedure is worth the risk. He and his associates have treated 67 advanced breast-cancer patients in this manner over the past four years. Though 11 have died of complications, mostly infections, 16 are in complete remission, seemingly disease free. "That means 1 in every 4 is a long-term survivor," he says. Others are not persuaded. "I am not convinced that we have the benefits...
...JACOB'S LADDER. Vietnam vet Jacob Singer (Tim Robbins) is seeing things: whirling heads, killer cars, villains everywhere. Is he a conspiracy victim? Or is he dead? And if so, will any moviegoer care? Adrian Lyne's revved-up spook show plays like a Twilight Zone episode on steroids...