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When Schiller came to the United States in 1973, his background writing films about fine arts and his wife Victoria’s experience as a high school German teacher were of little...
...tell a lot often by a person’s zip code,” Fitzsimmons said. “We can determine in a rough kind of way if students come from a socioeconomically disadvantaged background...
...there, and during his tumultuous few months of living and working with Vincent van Gogh in Arles, that he developed the elements of his mature style--firmly modeled foreground figures against flat ranges of background color. The pigments are abruptly juxtaposed in the Impressionist manner. Landscape in Gauguin is likely to be a furious collision of hot pink against blue and chrome yellow against vermilion. But he would put behind him the short fluttering brushstrokes that the Impressionists had made their sign of the fleeting moment. Gauguin distilled and abstracted, producing an emotional impression, not an optical one, in which...
...very awkwardness of her position gives her weight within the picture, and by extension, the world. Even when, in The Ancestors of Tehamana, he painted the same girl more conventionally, in an upright and frontal pose and a modest Western dress, he placed her before a stylized background of native spirits and glyphic letters borrowed from the Rongorongo tablets of Easter Island. Those tablets have never been fully decoded. Neither has Gauguin. But the power of his mysteries brings us back to him over and over...
What kind of president would Kerry be? One of the best. As a thoughtful Democrat, he would bring jobs, health care and compassion into his Administration. And never underestimate the power of a woman. Teresa Heinz Kerry's understanding of many world problems, through her background and her fluency in five languages, would add a dimension to Kerry's presidency that is sadly lacking in Bush's military-industrial complex. TRISH HOOPER Portola Valley, Calif...