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...bodies, whose work was admired by Van Gogh, Gauguin and the symbolists of the 1890s, as well as young Turks like Picasso. He had studied Puvis's frescoes in the Pantheon, and their upright, formalized mien gave the measure to his big allegory of young love and despair, La Vie, 1903. (Originally the young man in the painting was a self-portrait, but Picasso turned it into the face of Carlos Casagemas, the friend who had come with him to Paris from Barcelona and then committed suicide for love of an artist's model...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Show of Shows | 5/26/1980 | See Source »

However, within the context of French politics, the PCF had few alternatives. Unlike both the Italian Communist Party and the Spanish Communist Party, the PCF must vie constantly with the French Socialists for the title of "the opposition party." A complete severance of its ties with Moscow could make the party politically undistinguishable from its bourgeois opponent. Always on the defensive, the party follows a precarious path, extremely sensitive to the international political climate. Whenever the PCF begins to climb the electoral ladder, unexpected external events drop the party to the bottom rung. The party succumbs to a Sisyphian fate...

Author: By Michael Lerner, | Title: Wrong Turn On Red | 3/10/1980 | See Source »

...superpowers vie over vodka...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Grain Waves | 2/25/1980 | See Source »

Hundreds of American missions boards--organizations that finance and supervise missionary work in this country and abroad--vie for the services of young people like Rozzell and Rose. Part of the function of conferences like the Urbanas is to link students with these boards, which then help the students choose the program best suited to their interests and talents. Before students are sent to Nigeria or Borneo, they often participate in one of the many missionary training programs sponsered by the International Fellowship. Schloss Mittersill, a castle in Austria, is the Fellowship's training headquarters, where students from six continents...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, | Title: Answering the Lord's Call | 2/13/1980 | See Source »

...else on the album, it slides neatly in one ear and just as neatly oozes out the other. The proposed image was, as Hubbard notes, of "a yacht in the Mediterranean. Leaning over a rail at night thinking. The whole spectrum of love: the champagne of c'est la vie in a million stories...

Author: By Thomas M. Levenson, | Title: Dentists' Office Jazz | 11/20/1979 | See Source »

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