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That, of course, is part of the magic and the grip of his work: its unrelenting vitality. His figures, men or women, may be mad or bad. They may be full of life, or they may just have been spitted on a French saber. But they are never limp, wooden or uninteresting. Goya's immense appetite for life always keeps rasping through their imagined breathing. That is why one can never get bored in front of them, and why every Spanish painter since has seen him, with a mixture of delight and despair, as the man against whom no comparison...
...Winners DAVID BLAINE Street magician sits on pole for 35 hours, then falls 30 meters onto cardboard, wowing his audience with the magic that is gravity THE GRATEFUL DEAD Band to resume long, strange trip with reunion-inspiring Deadheads who have been hacky-sacking outside empty venues for years AYUMI HAMASAKI J-Popster is top female at MTV Japan awards. Her win ensures everyone will remember the name "Ayumi"-at least for the next 10 minutes Losers ROY KEANE Irish captain kicked out of World Cup for divisiveness. Sipping champagne during flight home on private jet, he does deep soul...
...growth for host nations averaged 3.3%. Low Blow For High Tech n Resourceful nerds and music lovers cracked Sony's much-vaunted - and more maligned - compact-disc copy protection. Users overrode the high-tech, anti-piracy CDs by coloring the discs' edges with a decidedly low-tech magic marker. Prodi Gets Direct n European Commission President Romano Prodi surprised friends and foes alike by calling for direct E.U. taxation. The proposal has already met resistance in France, Britain and Germany. Subcontinental Drift n Bombay's stock market tumbled to a year's low as India and Pakistan ramped up their...
...BLACK MAGIC MARY Siquijor Island is one spooky place. It's riddled with abandoned churches and unexplored caves and known throughout the Philippines for its black magic and mangkukulam, or traditional healers. The real hair-raiser is a statue of the Virgin Mary in the village of Maria, a winding 15-km drive through the mountains from the main port of Larena. In her right hand she clutches a skull and in her left an inverted crucifix. Leave before dark: word is she's a nightwalker...
...magic of proctoring is the day-to-day interaction,” he said. “The big events leave memories but when you help people through really tough times that’s when you really make a difference. You establish lots of small relationships with people that carry with you for the rest of your life...