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His formal art education began in Paris in the early '20s. Balthus shied away from politico-aesthetic groups like the surrealists. After such a childhood, who needed the insecurities of the avantgarde? Instead he settled down to study the fathers: Poussin and Courbet in France and, supreme among the...
No maker of such pastiches has been as acute as Coward, who entirely rewrote Let's Do It for his nightclub act: "Teenagers in jeans do it/ Probably we'll live to see machines do it." But that was merely Noël the singer. There was also...
Despite the prosecution's insistence that the trial was simply about a long-forgotten murder, the case had a deeper significance. Some supporters viewed Ginny Foat as a martyr, an example of a woman who had overcome the degradation of domestic violence only to be prosecuted for her political...
Where did he stand, finally? He called himself "a man of the left," realizing that most of his allies shied away from or repudiated his maverick views. In fact, Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four have long been embraced by the right as anti-revolutionary tracts. Yet such terms shift...
With encouraging--even lucrative--results from investment sectors like venture capital, real estate, and the options market, Harvard has begun to raise the ceiling on these "special investments." This year, nearly $150 million will go into fields which Harvard (and nearly all other universities) shied away from only a decade...