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...social history. Though any post-Marxist pedant can wring out the usual insights about patriarchy and property in 17th century Dutch bourgeois life, none of them touch on the peculiar magic of Vermeer's images. Like Piero della Francesca, Vermeer was a highly inexpressive artist. He didn't even paint a self-portrait, as far as anyone knows. You come out of the exhibit knowing almost as little about Vermeer the man as when you went in. Biography, faint: Lived in Delft, a backwater. Son of a silkworker. A Papist in a Calvinist town. Quite successful nonetheless. Married Catharina Bolnes...
...shape and depth. When you look at the details, you see a system of coherent microforms in every representation of small pattern and texture, whether he's doing the faux-marble finish of a virginal case or resolving the optical glitter of a gold frame into tiny lozenges of paint. You're meant to enjoy both the illusion and the means by which it's brought about. Supremely conscious of his language, he puts all the machinery in the open--like Velazquez, but on a tiny scale...
...World War I battlefield of Verdun, France. They wandered the fields, scene of ghastly sacrifice, with its solemn tombs for soldiers from each country, and then slipped into the ossuary. But there were private stairs leading down to a basement, walled off by glass windows that had been painted black to hide what was inside. The paint had peeled, so they decided to take a peek...
Once Gingrich was selected as a Man of the Year candidate, we also drew on the work of a team of TIME correspondents to help paint the Speaker in all his brilliant, strange plumage. Doug Waller gathered childhood stories from "Newtie's" hometown of Hummelstown, Pennsylvania. Elaine Shannon and Adam Cohen looked into Gingrich's Southern ties. Wendy Cole hung out with "Kit" Gingrich, the Speaker's outspoken mother. Jeff Birnbaum followed Newt's money trail. In the meantime, Gingrich's heady first 100 days were documented close-up by TIME's prizewinning photographer P.F. Bentley. "P.F.'s passion...
...Scheiber was already worth several million dollars, but it was hardly reflected in her life-style. Paint was peeling from her apartment walls. Bookcases were caked with dust. "She was a product of the Depression years," says Fay. Her father suffered substantial losses in the property market. "She felt she had to live on her meager pension and Social Security. She never spent any of it on herself." She kept some money in savings accounts, but Fay encouraged her to invest in money-market funds and tax-exempt bonds. By the early 1980s her cash flow from interest and dividends...