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...Picasso pictures in the show date mainly from the late '20s and early '30s, when the painter was flirting with Surrealism. Bathers with contorted necks, lovers with daggerlike teeth, minotaurs with ravaged victims - all find some allusion in Bacon's works. "I think of myself as a maker of images," Bacon once said, that produce an impact "immediately on the nervous system." Picasso gave him the artistic vocabulary to do that. Bacon claimed it was this "brutality of fact" that linked their work. But Bacon clearly wins in the cruelty stakes, especially in his nudes. His Lying Figure...
...Total and luxury goods maker LVMH. Nearly everyone feels the pinch; the national statistics institute predicts that household purchasing power will be virtually stagnant in the first half of this year. Meanwhile, it's unclear where the government will find the extra €1.6 billion to fund the public-sector raise - new Finance Minister Thierry Breton last week downgraded official forecasts of economic growth this year, from 2.5% to nearer 2%. A Bad Day At The Bourses Is the boom off in Central Europe's stock markets? After posting record gains in recent months, bourses across the region stumbled last...
...place where the most famous villain in history met his maker bears no trace...
...workers brought a Powerbook with him to work each day, insisting on using it for his work despite the fact that he was employed by the maker of a competing product...
...first time he can remember, India's richest film-maker is having trouble with his math. Specifically, how 600,000 goes into 175. The first figure is the population of Dharavi, Asia's most populous slum, which he's currently exploring. The second is the number of hectares Dharavi covers in Bombay, an area half the size of New York City's Central Park. In a different life, Shekhar Kapur spent seven years crunching numbers as a corporate planner for a multinational oil company. He surveys the tiny one-room lean-tos where teeming families live shoulder to shoulder...