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...possibly of typhus, on a Tuscan beach. Although the papal pardon he sought for years was finally granted, he did not live to learn the news. All through that complicated exile, while circling among Naples, Malta and Sicily, Caravaggio managed to sustain and even deepen his intuitions about light, shadow and pictorial drama. The evidence is in every room of "Caravaggio: The Final Years," a show that runs at the National Gallery in London through May 22. Previously presented in Naples, the exhibit is small; it lacks a few of the most important late paintings. But the 15 it includes...
Monday, Feb. 28. Sue Erikson Bloland discusses In The Shadow of Fame: A Memoir by the Daughter of Erik H. Erikson. 6:30 p.m. Harvard Book Store...
...film is helmed by director Vilsoni Hereniko, himself a native of Rotuma. Much of the movie centers on the emotional evolution of a young girl as she fights to cast off the shadow of a shamed family and cultural repression. Eyes chronicles the trials of Viki and her traditional family as her wise, gentle father is first accused and then unjustly convicted of stealing from a neighbor, a sentence which brings with it not only a steep fine but a crushing disgrace upon the entire family...
...Taken together, the various releases demonstrate the deep shadow Mitterrand still casts over France nine years after his death. "He remains fascinating to people of the left and the right," says ex-Foreign Minister Hubert Védrine, a key Mitterrand adviser and current president of the Institut François-Mitterrand, an institution devoted to preserving Mitterrand's memory. "Sixty years of political life during very troubled political times, his move from the right to the left, his intellectual authority, psychological strength, and stupendous culture - it all adds up to a romantic figure...
...shield their kids from kidnappers, gun battles and car bombs. And yet on Jan. 30, widely predicted to be the most dangerous day since the end of the war--so dangerous that the government banned vehicular traffic--the streets seemed to be overrun by children: playing soccer in the shadow of U.S. Abrams tanks, chasing other kids in impromptu games of catch, accompanying their parents to polling booths, decked out in their newest clothes. "It's a big day, and I wanted my girls to experience it," said Amina Hussein, a Baghdad housewife, as she and her husband tried...