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...them -- the shield masks, the displacement and distortion of limbs -- as a means of reconnecting with his own African inheritance. He was not the first "provincial" to discover in Paris a means of using his local identity; he took what he needed (not only from Picasso but also from Max Ernst and much lesser figures like Hans Bellmer, and even from Jean Cocteau's hypermannered / line drawings) to find what he was. Lam's version of Cubism was more illustrative than Picasso's. The figures in his best-known painting, The Jungle, 1943, are like renderings of sculpture standing...
...Dizzy was the catalyst, the man who inspired us all," the great drummer Max Roach has said. "By the time he came to New York he was playing in all the Big Bands. He was the one who told us about a saxophone player in Kansas City named Charlie Parker or a bass player in Minneapolis named Oscar Pettiford." Dizzy brought them all together to play at a fabled Harlem joint called Minton's, where, after the regular sessions, strange scrambled rhythms and impossible harmonies would float toward the dawn. It was, indeed...
Legal scholars believe that a special tribunal, rather than any single nation's courts, would be the appropriate venue. Says Jochen Frowein, of the Max Planck Institute for International Law in Heidelberg: "A Security Council resolution setting out in detail how existing provisions on war crimes shall be applied is the only promising avenue...
...that the immediate threat is less the rivalry of the factional leaders than the abundance of weapons. Order cannot be restored permanently until the country's thugs are separated from their sophisticated caches of weapons, which range from AK-47s to surface-to-air missiles and technicals, the Mad Max vehicles mounted with heavy machine guns and antiaircraft weapons. Residents do not mistake Mogadishu's relative calm for peace; they know that the thugs have simply redeployed to the bush...
When you're finished, head to the Rocky Mountain chocolate factory for dessert. Just be sure to recycle any paper or plastic--Aspen is enviro-conscious to the max. And don't gawk at celebrities--it isn't polite...