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...time, Renoir worked with figures so strongly outlined that they could have been put down by Ingres with a jackhammer. By 1892, the year with which the LACMA show starts, he had drifted back toward a fluctuating Impressionist brushstroke. Firmly contoured or flickering, his softly sculpted women are as full-bodied as Doric columns. This was one of the qualities that caught Picasso's eye, especially after his first trip to Italy, in 1917. He would assimilate Renoir alongside his own sources in Iberian sculpture and elsewhere to come up with a frankly more powerful, even haunting, amalgam...
...take you down there," she recalls of her Tribeca neighborhood. But she fell in with a community of artists and made money fixing up loft spaces with Philip Glass, who was driving a cab by day and performing at night. "I would sand the floors and put up these Sheetrock walls, and [he] would do the plumbing," she says. "And I'd tell Philip, 'You have to sign these pipes. You're going to be really famous.' He was like, 'Aw, shut...
...Monday, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton finally got around to acknowledging what a lot of people have known since Iran's contested election last June - there's been a military takeover in that country, with the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) grabbing every important lever of power. As Clinton put it during a televised town-hall meeting, "The Supreme Leader, the President [and] the parliament is being supplanted, and Iran is moving toward a military dictatorship...
...bait. Through an ingenious electronic hoax, Colombian Army agents, mimicking rebel radio operators, had convinced the guerrillas to allow "international aid workers" to check the health of the 15 hostages then transfer them to another FARC camp on helicopters. But to pull it off, the army would have to put together a convincing mise...
...Despite all the crashes, several boarders refused to admit that their sport was unsafe, pointing out that the weather was beyond their control. But if inclement conditions put Olympians at risk, doesn't that make their sport inherently perilous? Two World Cup athletes have died competing in snowboard cross over the past five years. The winner of Tuesday's women's race, Maelle Ricker of home country Canada, had to be airlifted to a hospital after crashing during the final of the 2006 Games (she suffered no serious injuries...