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...started the large wall painting in 1909, it was a panorama of voluptuous women in bright colors. When he finished it seven years later, the women were angular and anonymous, the setting radically flattened, and the river had become another of those vertical black bands, with a stark white snake shooting upward along it like a bent poker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Great Leap Forward: Matisse in Chicago | 4/12/2010 | See Source »

...audience doesn't have to take it too serious." The movie relies instead on the narrative twists and power of the old Greek myths; for, purely as tales to keep the faithful entertained, the notions of gods as jealous and deceitful as the humans they created, and a snake-woman whose gaze turns men to stone, are at least as edifying and entertaining as stories about the multiplying of loaves and fishes or the parting of a sea. It's religious doctrine as bedtime fable, and suitable fodder for a movie epic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clash of the Titans: A Hit from a Myth | 4/2/2010 | See Source »

...right, but selling a European-style VAT to Americans is a bit like selling snake poison and would likely mean political suicide for any of its supporters. That said, there's no hiding the fact that the ratio of public debt to GDP is expected to balloon from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How High Could the U.S. Tax Rate Go? | 3/3/2010 | See Source »

Moya makes a subtle gesture when he succeeds the narrator’s first-hand account with a more distanced, third-person exposé of the media and police’s scramble to curb the “snake invasion.” As Sosa relays the details of his crimes, his calm demeanor permeates his victims’ screams; “The din outside was tremendous. The ladies were in a kind of orgy, biting everything in sight... In just a few seconds the street had been destroyed. There were dozens of bodies lying twisted...

Author: By Denise J. Xu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Moya Struggles to Charm in 'Snakes' | 2/9/2010 | See Source »

...that is the best way I know how to describe the situation. The crushing feeling is analogous to how it must feel for a creature to be eaten alive by a python. What makes the prospect so sickening is that the prey is still alive and conscious as the snake is swallowing them whole, caught between life and death, painfully aware that they are being eaten, but powerless to do anything about...

Author: By C. FRANK IGWE | Title: Broken Schools | 2/1/2010 | See Source »

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