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...Rating: [5 umbrellas] Noting how well the whole boat motif worked for Leo DiCaprio, Kerry Sanders grips a ship's mast with one hand and a wind meter with the other. Insanely stupid or uncommonly brave? Either...
Bonnard's critics--including Picasso, who dismissed his art as "a potpourri of indecision"--have often made the mistake of treating Bonnard as a mere hedonist, with his beautiful color and apparent lack of conceptual underpinning. In this they have been wrong. There was nothing stupid or foolishly pleasurable about Bonnard's work. But Whitfield is right to see Bonnard as an elegiac artist: "He is not a painter of pleasure. He is a painter of the effervescence of pleasure and the disappearance of pleasure...
Finding the culprits, acknowledged Donald Kerr, the FBI's laboratory chief, "is going to be arduous." Luck can play the defining role: even after the FBI knew how the Oklahoma City bombing occurred, they might never have found out who did it if Timothy McVeigh hadn't made the stupid error of driving without a license plate...
...more. Now Sheindlin, 55, is a one-woman justice machine. She says, "I may be wrong, but you're not going to misconstrue what I said. Why do I have to use polysyllabic explanations when a single syllable will do it--'No,' 'Wrong'? If I have to use two--'Stupid...
...been able to leave Harvard Square, or at least not venture more than a few miles away from it. With every painfully un-airconditioned June, I have burst into my temporary new life with enthusiasm, tons of clean underwear and the profound realization that I may have made many stupid mistakes the summer before, but that was a year ago and I know everything now. And with the dawning of every September, I inevitably slink back into the dining hall with a fresh new haircut and a matching set of regrets...