Word: parise
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The two came together in Rome, where Poussin spent most of his life. Born in Normandy in 1594 (his father was a military officer, his mother an alderman's daughter), he was educated, probably by Jesuits, in Paris, and turned to painting before he was 20. A chance encounter with...
His theater isn't realist, like Caravaggio's, but it is based on a codification of reality, a formal, elevated representation of passion and thought. In this he was absolutely French -- the contemporary of Pierre Corneille, whose tragedies revolved around ideas of free will, exemplary virtue and conflicts between desire...
Fatherland was originally intended to be a big-budget Hollywood film. Instead it has been turned into a relatively modest HBO movie (which debuted last weekend). That fate, however, is hardly to be lamented. The TV-size budget, for one thing, has forced director Christopher Menaul (Prime Suspect) to be...
Such sneering is a bit unfair. General Rose and his 24,000-member force are in Bosnia on a narrowly defined mission: to protect aid shipments to civilians across the war-torn country, not to make or enforce peace. Their mission is based on the illogical premise that it is...
The British and French soldiers in Bosnia tie the hands of their governments. Last week, when the U.S. wanted to bash the Serbs from the air hard enough to force them to reconsider an international partition plan that grants them 49% of Bosnia rather than the 70% they occupy, Paris...