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...Christian Europe, Chagall was a natural-born alien. So it's no surprise that he was never comfortable within the confines of any of the European "isms." He arrived in Paris for the first time in 1910, when the avant-garde was still working under the spell of Cubism. Chagall took from it only what he could use, mostly the possibilities that Cubist fracturing offered as a way to lightly structure the space in which his figures moved. As for the more dedicated Cubists around him in the Paris art world, he wrote, "Let them eat their fill of their...
...rescue squads and hospitals. And well before that, many elderly people had already become cut off from regular human contact. "Heat waves reveal conditions that are always present but difficult to perceive," notes sociologist Eric Klinenberg, author of Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago - a hot spell that killed over 700 in 1995. "Primary among those is the rise of an elderly isolated population that lives at the margins of major cities." The remainder of the fatalities - between 30% and 50% - came from France's 10,000 rest homes. The homes, once models of good care, have...
...does--and that's the California election in a nutshell. Thirty-five years after he arrived in the U.S., Schwarzenegger is a name that everybody knows, even if one that not everybody can spell. And in the pinwheeling world of the California recall, that alone may be enough to make him, at 56, the man who replaces Gray Davis as Governor. But when it comes to knowing a public figure, what we expect from elected officials is something different from what we settle for from movie stars. A guy can spend decades playing killer robots and musclehead commandos without once...
...abroad and you hear it. I do. Each year, as summer approaches, I make a hajj to London's West End to see the latest shows. I was there this year during an unseasonably warm spell. The English are so unused to balmy weather that, when the sun takes a robust turn, they rush outside, roll up their sleeves and flop on a lawn or bench for a London broil. All that fair skin takes a ruthless incinerating; by day's end, the only color anyone's wearing on face and arms is pink. I guess, considering the caustic images...
...bull--from your business writing, that is. Don't even try to "leverage synergies" or "incentivize" employees if you're using Deloitte Consulting's new Bullfighter software, designed to make business documents more readable. Bullfighter works like a spell checker in either Microsoft Word or PowerPoint and assigns documents a score based on sentence complexity and the use of some 350 "bullwords." Using Bullfighter, Deloitte found that among companies in the Dow Jones industrials, those that spoke plainly in shareholder letters and other communications outperformed those that loaded up on jargon. Bullfighter is available free...