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...chain-smoker, he has given up cigarettes and alcohol and looks younger than he has in years. "Did you know," he asked, "that the Mona Lisa hung in the bathrooms of Francois I, Louis XIV and Napoleon?* Francois I, well, that was normal because he bought it from Leonardo. It was not so logical in the case of Louis XIV, because in his reign the great painter was Raphael. And in Napoleon's day, Leonardo was thought of as a second-rate painter...
...Buddhist Retreat by Stream and Mountain, and the clumsy spatterings that often declare "spontaneity" in the West. It is partly a difference of insight -Chii-jan's mountain, breathed into serenely vertical form, layer by stratified layer, is as mysterious in its allusions to geological time as any Leonardo landscape. It is also a difference of discipline. The wen-jen served no apprenticeship, and the idea of being "professional" painters would have appalled them. Nevertheless, it was recognized that one could hardly attain mastery of the brush before...
Most of the attacks by Arab terrorists on jetliners or airports, however savage and irrational, have been interpreted as demonstrations of anger and frustration by Palestinian refugees who were trying to draw attention to the plight of their people. But the massacre at Rome's Leonardo da Vinci Airport two weeks ago, as well as other recent hijackings, seemed to have a special motivation. Not only were the casualties particularly high-32 died-but the attack came almost on the eve of the Geneva peace conference. The Rome attack was apparently the work of a Black September splinter group...
...departure lounge of Rome's Leonardo da Vinci Airport, Robert Suit, 60, travel editor of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, was waiting with friends to board a plane for New York when they saw a commotion farther down the concourse. "Must be some movie star," one of them remarked. After some nuns hurried past them, another quipped, "No, maybe it's the Pope...
Guadalupe Cruz is the oldest grandmother in town. She is Don Leonardo's grandmother. There has never been a happy moment in her life. Her husband died fifteen years ago, and her son died eight months ago. She doesn't get on with her daughter-in-law next door. She invites you into her dark room and hands you some tiny nuts to eat. A grandchild or great-grandchild swings in a makeshift hammock attached to the ceiling over...