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...French. The French Surrealists made a point of public provocation, inserting themselves into politics, issuing pretentious manifestos. Not so their Belgian cousins; "the subversive act," said one, the writer Paul Nouge, "must be discreet." Magritte's style, as it evolved, was studiously neutral. His early work, in the 1920s, was mainly exercises in late Cubism -- the "tubist," streamlined, geometrical forms of Fernand Leger and Amedee Ozenfant, shapes that might have been made from metal. The artist who clearly had the biggest impact on Magritte, turning him toward fantasy and irrational images, was Giorgio de Chirico. And even then Magritte couldn...
...town's adversities may actually have strengthened the student bonds. The farm economic crisis of the 1920s, followed by the Great Depression in the 1930s, pushed the people inward. World War II froze town development. Even after the war, Greenfield was ignored by superhighways and shopping malls. The kids manufactured their activities among themselves, mostly at high school. "We truly got to love each other," said Darlene Don Carlos Marshall...
...alienation from other blacks because he was half white. He came from a cotton hamlet in South Carolina and proved himself a brilliant art student in Chicago. Like other black artists and writers, he found refuge from America in Europe: first in Paris (on a scholarship in the 1920s), then in the south of France and finally -- having met and fallen in love with Holcha Krake, a Danish artist 16 years older than he was -- in Denmark, where he painted and exhibited with some success through the 1930s...
...contracts with its 5,000 suppliers in search of ways to firm up quality while trimming as much as $4 billion, or 13%, from its $30 billion parts-and-supplies budget. As a result, its longtime relationship with GENERAL ELECTRIC is on the line. A GM supplier since the 1920s, GE makes 60 million tiny light bulbs every year for GM dashboard displays, trunks and glove compartments. Now GM has located a Japanese company whose light bulbs cost 20% more but last 40% longer, and it has challenged GE to close the savings...
...digital wizard brings the 1920s and '30s into...