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...refused to join a country club, instead preferring to build roads and dig wells on his 185-acre Montana spread. He seldom hid his differences with GM's top brass, often phrasing his protests in barnyard epithets. Last year, when he found himself sidelined in a staff job, the restless Rock prepared to take one of GM's early-retirement packages...
...heard, it might be added, the sound of applause that has hardly faded from that night to this day. Over the past three decades, Haden has been one of the most restless, gifted, intrepid players in all of jazz. You can figure that from the stats: he has played, by his own count, on more than 400 albums, and last August scored as Down Beat magazine's best acoustic bass player. Or you can hear it for yourself: Haunted Heart, a new album with his Quartet West, shows Haden, now 55, at his lyrical peak. It is a kind...
Vidal has always been impossible to pigeonhole. He is ever the restless bull in the china shop of conventional wisdom. He is also a serious student of history. Jason Epstein, his old friend and longtime publisher, correctly calls Vidal "the last in a line of men of letters -- among whom Edmund Wilson is a classic example. Scholars like him are rare in any age, polymaths with a huge range of interests." Vidal can lampoon the New Testament because he knows the Bible and Roman history...
...idea that Matisse and Picasso, like Gog and Magog, are the founding opposites of modern art has left us a partisan scheme for looking at their work -- and for thinking about it. Picasso drawings, Matisse color; Picasso anxiety, Matisse luxury; Picasso the restless inventor, Matisse the calm unifier; Picasso in conflict, Matisse rhyming with peace; Picasso the bohemian Spaniard, Matisse the detached French bourgeois. There is something to these oppositions, but the closer you look at them the more tenuous they get. Matisse was just as challengingly inventive in his Fauve paintings in 1905 as Picasso became, with Cubism, around...
...have not yet caused large epidemics. The total number of tuberculosis cases reported last year was 26,283, up from a low of 22,000 in 1984, but still well below the 84,000 recorded in 1953. However, scientists are worried about the future. "We forgot that microbes are restless and that they would counterattack," says Richard Krause, a senior scientific adviser to the National Institutes of Health. "That was incredible hubris on our part...