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...Luckily for us, he had been inspired by an exhibition of French Impressionists the year before. He turned down the university job and moved to Germany to study painting full time. "Kandinsky," a major retrospective at Paris' Pompidou Center until Aug. 10 and then at the Guggenheim in New York City from Sept. 18, tracks his journey over the ensuing decades, both geographically and stylistically. Drawn to centers of the avant-garde and occasionally swept off course by the grim events of the early 1900s, we see Kandinsky progress from traditional naturalistic scenes to the stunning abstract canvases that made...
...York City A Rebound on Wall Street Goldman Sachs made a startling announcement on April 14 that for once had nothing to do with bankruptcy or federal intervention. The bank posted better-than-expected earnings--more than $1.8 billion. More strikingly, the firm revealed it had sold $5 billion in stock and plans to use the money to repay the $10 billion in TARP funds it borrowed in October 2008. In clearing its debt, Goldman hopes to free itself from the restrictions-- like those on executive pay--imposed on firms that received bailout money. Last year...
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...change their lives and recalibrate their expectations. For this week's cover story, written by editor at large Nancy Gibbs and designed and produced by deputy art director D.W. Pine and deputy photo editor Dietmar Liz-Lepiorz, we wanted to get away from the media hot zones in New York City and Los Angeles and hear from people from around the country. News director Howard Chua-Eoan dispatched a dozen reporters to talk to autoworkers and salesmen, teachers and hairstylists, to get their own experiences in their own words. We talked to people not only in Rust Belt towns...
Lewis has just published a new novel, The Secret, set in the idyllic village of Bird-in-Hand, which debuts on the New York Times paperback best-seller list April 19 at No. 10. Spurred by her success - and that of best-selling authors Cindy Woodsmall and Wanda Brunstetter (whose new book, A Cousin's Promise, is set among the Amish in Indiana) - more than a dozen other Christian-romance novelists are eschewing Sex and the City-type story lines for horse-and-buggy piety. "There still isn't enough inventory," marvels Avon Inspire's Cynthia DiTiberio, who edits Shelley...