Word: zurcher
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...must get your eyes accustomed first and gradually to the different light," Vincent Van Gogh told his brother Theo in 1889. The different light that shines from a Van Gogh painting has been astonishing the world ever since. It does so once more in Bernard Zurcher's sensitive picture biography, Vincent Van Gogh: Art, Life, and Letters (Rizzoli; 325 pages; $60). In the ten years before his suicide, Van Gogh turned out more than 2,000 drawings and paintings, progressing from somber browns and greens to the bright hues of his last months. Nearly a century later, they still radiate...
When the Supreme Court ruled in Zurcher vs. Stanford Daily two years ago that police had the right to make unannounced searches of newsrooms for information useful in criminal investigations, the outcry from journalists, publishers and civil libertarians across the country was deafening. Of several Burger Court decisions that have narrowed the free-press protections of the First Amendment, they believed that this one presented the greatest threat to a reporter's ability to protect confidential sources. But then, as news organizations braced for an anticipated wave of court-inspired raids, a curious thing happened: none occurred...