Word: paule
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...ironies of art history that Paul Cézanne used to warn young painters, "Beware of the influential master." Could there have been a more influential master than he? "The master of us all" is what Henri Matisse once called him, by which he surely meant himself, Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Piet Mondrian and any of the other pioneers of modernism. Fernand Léger once told an interviewer about his "battle to quit Cézanne," as though he were a narcotic. "Then one bright day," Léger insisted, "I said, 'Zut!'" (See pictures of Cezanne...
...unloved suburbs offer fewer impediments to growth. "The historical decision to preserve the buildings of intra muros Paris means that we're now pushing those walls into the surrounding suburbs in numerous ways," notes Paul Roll, director general of Paris' Office of Tourism and Conventions. As an example, he cites the skyscrapers built in the western enclave of La Défense for companies looking for headquarters, offices and big hotels that couldn't be constructed in town. "In that way, Paris remains protected, while the region benefits from innovative construction similar to London's," he says...
Perched in a narrow loft above the leisurely bustle of his tobacco shop, Paul J. MacDonald gestures at the portraits of Fred Leavitt and Waldo Peirce hanging prominently on the other side of the room...
...reducing dependence on environmentally disastrous fossil fuels which increases the power of America's enemies ..." or "... increases carbon emissions and empowers foreign thugs." This is the language that was used in the previous Administration - Obama would never use it - and probably does not appreciate it from his fellow Americans. Paul Teichmann, MUNICH, GERMANY...
...think the Obama administration wanted someone who is squeaky clean, and certainly Gary is a Boy Scout." - Paul Berendt, former Washington State Democratic Chairman, on Locke's fairly boring past (he actually was a Boy Scout), Seattle Times...