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Mittarakis, the daughter of Greek immigrants, lost both her parents by the time she was 10 years old. She took up painting during her teenage years while living in an orphanage. For years the artist supported herself and two daughters by selling tropical , scenes at Rio street fairs. Her vibrant works -- which have been called "painted poetry" -- eventually attracted the attention of European critics...
...once vibrant institutions that gave the little guy a fair shake and a share of the action in the New Deal era have atrophied into empty shells: political parties, labor unions and working-class newspapers. Taking their place, Greider provocatively argues, are the cool, rational tools of by-the- numbers policy analysis, the legacy of "the energetic reform movements launched by Ralph Nader and others in the 1960s." Much like the Progressives early in the century, the Naderite reformers distrusted the messiness of mass democracy and placed their faith instead in public-interest litigation and legislation. But in another illustration...
...that baseball today cannot compete with the sport during its glory days. They are wrong. Free agency, artificial turf and relief pitchers have changed the game, not destroyed it. And as George Will has noted, change and innovation should be applauded, not derided, as signs of a living, vibrant sport...
...critical time of transition, the European Community needs Paris' traditional leadership more than ever. The French are worried that their country is failing to find a new role in the post-cold war world and that within Europe it is being overshadowed by the rise of a unified and vibrant Germany. Should they assert themselves vigorously and strive to lead the new Europe or retreat into a kind of Gallic stockade and preoccupy themselves with domestic concerns? The regional elections pointed to a distressing trend toward the second option...
...presented with coloring books like A. G. Smith's Knights and Armor, for example, are supposed to check out the "glossary of terms" in the back. And you can bet that the author doesn't intend for artists to fill in the line drawings with Crayola's new, vibrant colors: "wild strawberry" or "jungle green." No, Smith wants colorists to learn: If that means using the same depressing gray crayon on page after page in order to maintain accuracy, then...