Word: marc
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...bloodshed began shortly after 5 p.m. on Wednesday, when Marc Lepine, 25, an unemployed electronics buff who once aspired to study at the engineering school, arrived at the hilltop campus building. Armed with a hunting knife and a .223-cal. Ruger rifle manufactured in the U.S., Lepine climbed to the second-floor corridor and shot a woman student dead. Then, a carefree grin on his face, he entered the mechanical-engineering class of Professor Yvon Bouchard, where a student was in the midst of presenting his term project. "I want the women!" cried Lepine, ordering female students to one side...
Chagall: The Russian Years, 1907-1922 by Aleksandr Kamensky (Rizzoli; $100). Like the figures in his paintings, Marc Chagall (1887-1985) floated over formal artistic boundaries. This book tracks his flight from the Russian village that gave him his themes and folk style to St. Petersburg and beyond, where he reflected his past in modernism's bright palette and broken planes...
...unanswerable questions of children are treated with dignity and humor in Does God Have a Big Toe? (Harper & Row; $14.95). Marc Gellman, a rabbi, patiently retells Bible stories from a youthful view: Noah said to his friend, "You know, Jabal, this might be a very good time for you to take those swimming lessons you have been talking about for so long." Adam and his wife, Moses and his tablets, Joseph and his coat -- all are here with their moral testaments, made even easier to apprehend with Oscar de Mejo's eloquent landscapes of Eden and afterward...
...Marc Rybczyk...
Performed in concert with students throughout the "Seven Sister" traditionally all-female colleges, the RUS memorial occurs after Wednesday's assault on a science class in Montreal, allegedly by Marc Lepine...