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...doubt one's preference for Guercino's drawings over his paintings is partly caused by the modern liking for the immediate over the highly finished. Guercino liked the flicker of consciousness to show. In a famous passage, Leonardo da Vinci advised the painter to take inspiration from random pattern, like the mottled stains on an old wall; Guercino seems to have believed this too. One of the drawings in the show, Three Bathers Surprised by a Monster, starts with some random splatters of ink on the blank page; briskly and humorously, with a few minimal strokes, one of these blot...
...those who are astonished that Liberace was gay (or Alexander the Great or Leonardo da Vinci or numerous current power people whose right to privacy should be respected), as to those who wonder whether Ed Bradley of CBS's 60 Minutes is black (this was actually a question some years ago in Parade: "My husband and I can't agree: Is Ed Bradley of CBS's 60 Minutes black?" Yes, dear, he is), these must be strange and frightening times...
SPORT What Michael Jordan and Leonardo da Vinci have in common...
Jordan, whose gleaming visage is probably more familiar to American kids than that of Leonardo's lady, is an icon that grows more revered by the day. Millions more people have seen him pushing Nike Air Jordans, Pepsi and Wheaties than performing magic -- make that outperforming Magic -- on a basketball court. But all the commercial hype and publicity fade away when he does play, for Michael Jordan is the artwork and the artist, the poem and the . poet. He reinvents the sport every time he rises -- and rises -- into the air. He plays the game without cliche...
...Like Leonardo, Michael Jordan is now his own greatest competition. When you make the miraculous routine, the merely superb becomes ordinary. Audiences feel cheated unless Jordan pulls off one of those twisting, soaring dunks that are living proof of post-Newtonian physics. Now that he has won an N.B.A. championship, he doesn't really have anything left to prove -- except, of course, that he can do it again...