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Artists are known for what they push away as well as for what they embrace. So it was with Paul Gauguin, who for a century has fired the escapist imagination with his rejection of conventional life and academic painting for la vie Tahitienne and a bold new art. Paul Gauguin: Life and Work, by Michel Hoog (Rizzoli; 332 pages; $85), presents the Gauguin legend on a grand scale, from the artist's exotic Peruvian boyhood to his South Seas idyll. Hoog, chief curator at Musee de l'Orangerie in Paris, integrates the painter's biography with a broad representation...
Since 1958 yachtsmen around the world have informally agreed to compete every three or four years in the roughly 65-ft. boats called 12-meters (the meter designation refers to an abstruse architectural equation to which the craft must conform). But Fay proposed to vie for the Cup in a new 120-ft. K boat, a throwback to the majestic J boats used before World War II. In San Diego's light breezes, her soaring 160-ft. mast and other outsize features could give her a runaway advantage over existing defenders...
...more inventive and whimsical than Perec. He composed a full-length novel, La Disparition, without once using the letter e. He devised a 5,000-letter statement that read the same backward and forward. Its subject: palindromes. And four years before he died of cancer, Perec published La Vie Mode d'Emploi, a novel that French critics have increasingly hailed as a masterpiece...
...wonder if you would reconsider your condescending attitude toward Midwest education if you were told that Iowa and Wisconsin consistently vie for the highest literacy rate in the nation...
Seventy-five schools that traditionally produce the most scientists were eligible to form clusters and vie for the $8 million fund, called the Pew Science Program in Undergraduate Education, said Joan Girgus, director of the program. Schools within each cluster will use the funds to invigorate their science curriculums, she said...