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Rivera became a cubist after 1913, but he was no mere follower. Not only are his cubist canvases a lot bigger and more fiercely colored than those of most of his contemporaries, but they strike a peculiar stance between boldness and indecipherability, making the work of minor French cubists like Gleizes or Metzinger seem wispy and ladylike by comparison. The extreme case was Zapatista Landscape--The Guerrilla, Rivera's masterpiece of 1915. It has everything in it from a rifle and pistol holster to a sarape, a sombrero and the snow-capped Mexican cordillera. Yet despite all the detail...
Still other problems plague the researchers in their quest for an effective and non-toxic anti-viral drug--some of them not involving science. Groopman has encountered peculiar problems in the AZT study. "There is tremendous political pressure," Groopman says. He only has room for 20 patients while 60 AIDS and ARC patients want to take part in the experiment. So he will choose patients only on a "first-come, first serve basis...
Like the rest of the population, the Baby Boomers, particularly the younger ones, voted heavily for Ronald Reagan. It may seem peculiar that the Now generation went for a 73-year-old conservative. But Reagan said what they wanted to hear: boundless opportunity is theirs for the taking. To a generation pinched by high inflation and low wages in the '70s, the President's feel-good message was reassuring. Walter Mondale, on the other hand, came across to many Baby Boomers as the very sort of old-style, special- interest-pandering politician they distrusted...
...Frank Miller is a master of this peculiar form and has achieved greatness. The Dark Knight is a meditation on comics themselves and the heros that populate them. Is Batman a sociopath? Is Superman a facsist? It may revolutionize the industry...
...flavor of Lopez's art is peculiar and difficult to describe in the abstract. A good starting point is his small still life of a rabbit on a plate, dated 1972. It is just that, and no more: a rabbit skinned for roasting by a Spanish butcher, with its head left on; a glass plate with a scalloped edge; a kitchen table of pine covered with old cream paint, now scarred and stained, with bits of dark wood showing through; a band of gray wall with a mauve undercast. The table occupies a little over two-thirds of the depth...