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...come to believe that "tragedy" and "horrific" are apt ways to describe the champ's misfortune, that would be a gross over-reaction. Those who know Thorpe expect him to make a quick recovery. Given he won't be racing in a distance event, "Thorpedo" should be able to rejig his workload before August's Games to swim faster in the sprint events and relays, a leading local coach told Time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nobody's Perfect | 3/31/2004 | See Source »

...faithfully as possible. But the drift of fauvism and especially cubism was toward the conceptual: and here the idea of representing, say, a face as a flat plane with knoblike eyes and a cylindrical funnel of a mouth was infinitely suggestive. Certainly it was convenient for Picasso to rejig the human face in terms of bladelike noses and scarification lines, a I'Africaine. But cubism was not, as has naively been said in the past, "set off" by the "discovery" of tribal art; the perception of one reinforced the perception of the other. Sometimes the most striking "family" likenesses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Return of the Native | 10/15/1984 | See Source »

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