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...Woody Allen has always been a hero of mine,"Dershowitz said. "I still think he is one of thegreat filmmakers of all time," he said
...pigment. While the writers andmusicians of the period--Tolstoy, Dostoevsky,Chekhov, Rachmaninoff, Tchaikovsky--have achievedworldwide fame, the visual artists remain largelyunknown outside of the Soviet Union. In the latenineteenth century Russian culture came into itsown, breaking free of the slavish imitation ofwestern norms that had plagued it since Peter theGreat first journeyed across the steppes in the1700s. The efforts of painters to forge a uniqueRussian artistic identity rivaled their literaryand musical counterparts in complexity, sincerityand originality...
...electricyellows, blues and greens, its complete avoidanceof aerial perspective and the almost abstractshape of the regions of colors. Clearly, theexhibit does not intend to provide in this lastroom a thorough indication of the direction ofmodern art at the beginning of the twentiethcentury. Rather, by showing the early works of thegreat Russian moderns, the exhibit tries tounderscore not the newness of these painters, buttheir origins in the traditions of Russianpainting...
...issues until he graduated, hit theworking world, he joined the civil rights crusadewith a month-long legal stint in Mississippi. "Ihad an idea I ought to devote some time to publicservice and civil rights was the time to do it,"he says. "It was clear that this was likely thegreat moral struggle of my life...