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...what did he paint during those final years? One last great painting, of a terminally bored barmaid surrounded by a maze of mirror reflections, A Bar at the Folies Bergere. And flowers: many of them exquisite little watercolors (a briar rose, a snail on a leaf) done with rapid, sketchy delicacy, with notes to their recipients, mainly his women friends, written on the same page. Nothing indicates how he was suffering. His love of life and of style was too strong. In their sweet, private brevity, these tiny notes combining script and image are among the most "Japanese" images...
...rolling hills from his plump hips. She leans over the man's rump, rubs a furry cheek for aim, cocks her hand a good meter back and delivers a thunderclap wallop. Then she slings a high-heeled boot over his back and, straddling his haunches, spanks and rubs in rapid succession: hot sting, warm caress, hot sting again. Without missing a stroke, she looks up at a visitor and explains with a broad smile: "This is his ideal lunchtime...
...evidenced by the rapid-fire sequence of Cornell's shots, it was more opportunity than deliberate offensive pressure that gave the Big Red the advantage. Jonas registered one of his easier nights between the pipes in terms of shots, making 20 saves on 25 attempts...
...native Iowans resented new arrivals who didn't assimilate. A group of vets pushed through an English-only resolution. "The tension came because the change was so rapid," says Ken Anderson, president of the Marshalltown Area Chamber of Commerce. Vilsack hopes to avoid repeating past mistakes by taking things slowly...
...Dejan Anastasijevic: Things certainly don't look good at all for Macedonia. Nobody on either side of the ethnic divide in Macedonia had expected such a rapid escalation. The only way to interpret the rebels' success in sustaining a military challenge in an urban area deep inside Macedonia is that they have much more support among the local ethnic-Albanian population than anybody expected. But both communities - the ethnic Albanians and Macedonia's Slavic majority - are now radicalized, and both are losing faith that this can be solved by political means...