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...Condamine Street Atelier portrayed his friends Manet, Monet, Maitre, Renoir and writer Emile Zola while his own tall, lanky figure was painted in by Manet. That same year, the 29-year-old Bazille volunteered and was killed in combat in the Franco-Prussian War. Frédéric Bazille (Oct. 1-Jan. 18) is the first retrospective of his brief career to appear in Paris since 1950. With such accomplished paintings as the big, crystalline Family Reunion and the sensuous, almost Orientalist, La Toilette this small show makes clear how much extraordinary promise was lost with Bazille's early...
...Italy, and so loved the zabaglione that he wrote about it in The Charterhouse of Parma. Pedrocchi returned the favor by immortalizing the passage on a plaque in the "white" room. A small hole on the opposite wall is a souvenir from a less happy historical moment, when Prussian soldiers fired on students during the uprising of 1848. The small piazza just south of the café faces onto the Palazzo del Bo, the grandest of the University of Padua's buildings. Those lucky enough to spot a small graduation procession are in for a good show. The freshly diploma...
...plan that's on track," Richard Myers, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, kept saying last week, and in the broadest sense, he is probably right. But as 19th century Prussian Field Marshal Helmuth von Moltke famously said, "No battle plan ever survives contact with the enemy." Shifting circumstances on the ground last week posed a test for the Administration's skill at adaptation. Although the Bush Administration seemed unwilling to recognize it, there's actually nothing wrong in trumpeting U.S. flexibility in the face of new facts on the ground...
...COULD THERE BE NO DOCUMENTS? HASN'T THE IRAQI REGIME IN THE PAST HAD A PRUSSIAN-LIKE EFFICIENCY IN TERMS OF KEEPING RECORDS...
...exiled statue of Hermann Goering be restored to a prominent city square. He argues that while certain people may remember the Nazi leader as a vicious war criminal who founded the Gestapo, others associate him with his patronage of the Hermann Goering Master School for Painting and the Prussian Academy of Arts...