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...French second: often, several galleries separate the paintings the show intends to compare. But it's worth the back-and-forth legwork to see such superb pairings as Velázquez's 1636-37 full-length portrait of the actor Pablo de Valladolid with Manet's 1865-66 The Tragic Actor, Portrait of Rouvi?re in the role of Hamlet. With 40 paintings and drawings, Manet dominates the show, but the five Velázquez portraits alone are worth the long lines out front. Constable, the Choice of Lucian Freud at the Grand Palais is the first retrospective of the 19th...
...We’re very concerned because we don’t know where she is. However, if there is something wrong, if she is hurt, or if something tragic has happened, we would like to know before the public knows,” said Robert Waddell. “There are a lot to things we don’t know...
...indiscriminate shooting of strangers--and a twisted hunt for glory--has plenty of tragic precedent. But generalizations are hard to come by. Killers pick different victims and different M.O.s, depending on their motivation and mental state. In some cases, the victims fit some sort of pattern. Serial killer Joseph Paul Franklin, convicted of nine murders from 1977 to 1980, has said he was trying to start a race war by shooting African Americans and interracial couples. At the other end of the gory spectrum, notorious shooters like Texas tower sniper Charles Whitman initiate one uninterrupted orgy of violence--as opposed...
...equipment Carpenter supplied. Then he was murdered, almost certainly by Carpenter. Auto Focus tells this story as affectlessly as we just have. It's a conscious aesthetic choice by director Paul Schrader, not an accident of ineptitude. But no matter--his objectification of sad and stupid material is neither tragic nor transgressive. It is just undramatic and uninvolving. --By Richard Schickel...
...There was a certain amount of futility people felt after what happened on Sept. 11,” said Brownstein. For the band, songwriting was “the antithesis of that kind of spiritual and psychological deadening of the tragic...