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...deadly pastime. "What is extreme flying for me but a kind of dialogue?" he asks himself. "A conversation with myself about what I am capable of." Ramo's reverence for his fellow stunt pilots borders on the religious--he compares them variously with Yukio Mishima, John Coltrane and Pablo Picasso--and his lyrical flights sometimes lose the reader in the clouds. But when he's in the cockpit performing feats of gritty derring-do (and occasionally derring-don't), his airplane groaning and shuddering around him with the strain, the book soars. "Flight is a miracle that has been domesticated...
...noted “Lois Orswell, David Smith, and Modern Art” exhibition at the Fogg showcased works by Paul Cezanne, Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso. A distinguished collector, Lois Orswell bequeathed her collection to the Fogg five years ago, and the show was the first time her collection was shown as a cohesive group...
Certainly that was the case when the two men first met in Paris around 1905. Henri Matisse was then leader of the Fauves--the wild beasts--whose abruptly brushed, feverishly colored canvases had taken the lessons of Van Gogh and Gauguin to the inevitable far reaches. Pablo Picasso, 12 years younger, was still little known and working--though sometimes to surprising effect--with the dwindling resources of fin-de-siecle Symbolism. Both men were coming to grips with Cezanne and the means by which he represented space--with shallow patches of pigment that create the illusion of depth but still...
...British and Colombian investigators say the El Nogal bombing has the markings of I.R.A. and ETA tutelage. They point in particular to the sophisticated remote-control detonation of the car bomb. Colombia suffered a horrific rash of urban bombings just over a decade ago, when the drug lord Pablo Escobar lashed out at government efforts to rein in his cocaine cartel. The FARC is similarly piqued by Uribe's counterinsurgency efforts and recent U.S. aid increases for Colombia's weak but improving military. Last Friday, at least 16 people were killed in an explosion during a police raid...
...first-year, Pablo M. Ros ’06 knew that coming to Harvard would take him places. But he had never imagined that one of those places would be at the breast of an Oscar winning actress...