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...into such flak right from the beginning of his career: in 1929 the avant-gardist critic Efstratios Teriade complained that Dali's talent was "the precise opposite of those qualities which make a painter." But without the power granted by illusion to overturn our sense of the world's plain factuality, his contribution to 20th century culture would have been slight...
David walked out to fight in a loincloth with a sling. Goliath stepped out in a 10-foot shimmer of bronze with a 20-foot spear. A group of men ran onto the plain and hog-tied David to make things fair...
When Chopra first moved to the United States twenty years ago with his wife and newborn baby, he said an intruder carrying a baseball bat tried to enter his home in Jamaica Plain...
...that's what's on the table, in such plain view that Christie's last month ratted on Sotheby's by providing "information relevant" to the Justice Department, just weeks after Christie's chief executive, Christopher Davidge, abruptly resigned. Last week Davidge was followed by the two top officials of Sotheby's, A. Alfred Taubman, the chairman and largest individual stockholder who bought the firm in 1983 and took it public in 1988, and Diana ("Dede") Brooks, its chief executive. A replacement team was hastily assembled. Former Columbia University president Michael Sovern took Taubman's role as chairman, and William...
...start by using plain and honest language in discussing a death with our kids, no matter how young they are. Euphemisms such as "Granddad slipped away in the night" or "We had to put the kitty to sleep" leave the harmful impression that death is not permanent. The death of a pet often offers an early opportunity to get this right. A child who understands that the family dog has died and is not coming back--but will be remembered--will more easily comprehend the death of a friend or relative...