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Because of, never despite, such affinities, Matisse's originality is always clear. It lay in his unique gift of pure color. He possessed to the nth degree the power of making a flat disk of yellow or a slice of viridian turn into a lemon or a leaf, bathed in sunlit air. Sixty years have done little to blunt the impact of the flat-out chromatic intensity of some Matisses from the 1920s, like Anemones in an Earthenware Vase, 1924. The structure of the painting is as lucid as a theorem, with its pattern of rectangular hangings, panels and tabletop...
...minting and sale were authorized by Congress last year after the President issued an Executive Order banning the importation of Krugerrands from South Africa. That left the Canadian Maple Leaf as the major bullion coin available in the U.S. The public's appetite for such coins is already large, and a little-known fact will even enhance it: the new tax bill signed into law last week allows people to put gold coins in their IRA accounts, which surely will be used as an added selling point by dealers...
...meeting] got us psyched to turn over a new leaf," freshman midfielder Jen Gifford said. "We're going to try to be a more high-paced team...
...someday like to return to Moscow to lay flowers once again on the grave of his ancestor, about whom he is planning a book. But Daniloff insisted that, unlike Zakharov, he had come through the experience with his honor unsmudged. Yet was not the complex arrangement merely a fig leaf disguising the swap of Daniloff for a spy? "In my case," Daniloff responded, "the investigation into the charges against me was concluded. There was no trial, and I left as an ordinary free American citizen. In Zakharov's case, there was a trial, and he received a sentence...
Eventually, sometime during the journey to Vermont, the smell of a leaf fire will reach...