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MARGOT HORNBLOWER returned to the U.S. in 1994 after six years at TIME's Paris bureau and was astonished to see how much gambling was going on in America. Back in 1988, Nevada and New Jersey were the only two states where casinos were permitted. Since then they have been...
Seasons are important, of course, because they take place in all of us, and all our days and loves (even if Paris in the spring is Perth in the fall). They are as close to us as the spring in our step or the dying fall in a lover's...
THERE CAN'T BE MANY PEOPLE TOday who would think of putting Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (1796-1875) among the giants of 19th century French painting--Delacroix, Courbet, Manet, Monet or Cezanne. Yet in his lifetime he was regarded as one of the greatest landscapists who ever lived, and for...
Constable's paintings were the sensation of the 1824 Paris Salon, and their complex freshness came as a revelation to younger French artists, including the 28-year-old Corot, who was on the verge of departing for Italy. Today it's hard to imagine the delicious feelings of initiation and...
Corot was lucky in having a modest private income--his parents were well-off dressmakers in Paris--and he did not need to labor constantly on the big machines that spelled success or failure at the Salons. So he could work on the studies for their own sake, and these...