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...founded VPL in 1985. A legendary eccentric in a field famous for its oddballs, he grew up in a New Mexico desert, dropped out of high school to take up music composition and eventually drifted into video games, earning a reputation as a prodigious hacker. Amiable and rotund, he sports shoulder-length dreadlocks that make him look more like a Rastafarian reggae singer than a computer scientist...
...looks like a detail from the wall of his studio on which a number of postcards of his own works have been arranged, in all their diversity of style: cubist still lifes reproduced in miniature, but also a woman's head and two hands done in the rotund "classical" manner he adopted after 1919. The emblems of fragmentation (both cubist and antique) share the same pictorial space, essentially that of a collage, with those of an equally intense longing for stability and wholeness. It is a singularly moving image because it speaks so frankly of multiple desires, declaring...
That was 1971. Last month Cloud, 53, now Washington bureau chief, returned to Cambodia for the first time in 18 years. He sought out old friends and sources, including the jovial, rotund chef who used to serve a legendary souffle Grand Marnier in Phnom Penh's Cafe de Paris. Today the Cambodian capital's French restaurants are gone, but the chef survived the brutal Khmer Rouge years and has opened a far more modest Cambodian eatery where he still whips up a souffle. Says Cloud: "While it's only a pale imitation of the one he used to make...
...Syracuse set comes to Ephesus, where the Antipholus there has established himself as a prominent and respected member of the community. He lives with his faithful but buffoonish servant, the Ephesus-based Dromio, his lovely and pampered wife Adriana, his sister-in-law Luciana and a rotund, lustful kitchenmaid named Nell...
...first set went down to the wire, as Engel and Nastase each had breaks. With the score 4-4, Engel broke Nastase's serve again and held serve to win the set. After the set, Nastase rubbed his rotund belly and looked upward...