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...have spent their whole life with a real family don't understand the place, and "some boys say it's a prison and don't like it," he says. "But ((to me)), it's home away from home. There are people who want to see you make it through thick and thin. I kind of think growing up at Bethesda is going to help...
...which may account for Richter's distinctive, Olympian style. His huge stevedore's hands address the keys with the utmost confidence, and though the wrong notes sometimes fall thick and fast, there is never any question of who is in command -- or what the point of the performance really is. Richter has never been a virtuoso on the order of Vladimir Horowitz or Lazar Berman, a later Soviet firebrand with a crackling technique and not much else. Instead, he is a musician first and a pianist second. Hearing him play, one has the sense that if he could, he would...
...ideal. He did not generalize like an academic classicist. His paintings are full of precisely observed detail -- pebbles and flowers, plants and springs of water. The atmosphere in which forms are bathed is real, whether it's the blue silken light of spring in the Roman campagna or the thick darkness that envelops a landscape when a storm gathers and lightning strikes. (The dramatic mystery of Poussin's foul-weather scenes carries you back to Giorgione's Tempesta.) The architecture of his backgrounds evokes a perfect antiquity, embedded in Nature but not disfigured by Time; and when he paints fragments...
...techniques. Painted in 1901, around the time when he first moved to Paris, the bright palette of yellows and greens can be likened to the hues of Toulouse-Lautrec's works. In some places, the brushwork is feathery like Renoir's; in other places, it is more deliberate and thick like Van Gogh's. There are three pairs of women twirling about one another, their shapes congealing and dissolving. The trails of their dresses look like mermaid's tails, giving their bodies an organic quality as if they originated in the ground. Only one woman's face is discernible...
...short of building a Chinese wall, some skeptics wonder whether the U.S. can really seal off a border that consists largely of four-strand barbed wire and the Rio Grande, and includes the barren deserts around Yuma, Arizona; the thick evergreen brush near McAllen, Texas; two ocean ports; and several mountain ranges. The Border Patrol insists it can do so, in part because of that very terrain. The vast majority of crossings now take place in and around urban areas. The crackdowns in San Diego and El Paso rely on enhanced ( technology, fences and manpower over short stretches of mostly...