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...years his junior. Young artists were fascinated by the militant astringency of Cubism and its systematic means of exploding form and space. Compared with the bristling brown surfaces in Picasso and Braque, even Matisse's fiercest pictures, with their dizzying color, could look a bit "decorative" - a dismissive word thrown at him all the time. (See some artists from the 2010 Whitney Biennial...
...March 31, Serbia apologized for its role in the 1995 massacre of 8,000 Bosnian Muslims in Srebrenica. While the measure expressed sympathy for the victims of Europe's worst atrocity since 1945, it stopped short of using the word genocide. Serbia, which has applied for E.U. membership, must capture General Ratko Mladic, leader of the Bosnian Serb forces that committed the massacre, and send him to a war-crimes tribunal before its application will be considered...
...fell a precipitous 62.4% from its opening three days - the biggest second-weekend drop since Valentine's fell 70.4%. Perry's fan base is avid but limited; nearly everyone who wants to see his films sees them the instant they hit the theaters. Other movies keep soaring on good word of mouth. How to Train Your Dragon opened two weeks ago at $43.7 million, on the weak side for a DreamWorks 3-D animated feature. But it fell only 34% in its second weekend, and for its third time around, it dropped just 12.6%. In 17 days the movie...
What’s the problem with the above sentences? No, nothing’s spelled wrong. There are no grammatical errors. And there aren’t any of those tricky double-word optical illusions either...
...Guttenberg's tenatitive utterance of the "W" word unleashed a heated debate in the German media. The Frankfurter Allgemeine newspaper carried the headline "German Army in Afghanistan: At War," while the Süddeutsche newspaper praised the Defense Minister for his honesty, but posed the question: "What does war mean?" War is a tricky subject in Germany. According to the Defense Ministry, German soldiers are forbidden to engage in a "war of aggression" under the German constitution. Each foreign mission that includes the Bundeswehr - the German parliamentary army - is thus governed by a Bundestag mandate. In the case of Afghanistan...