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For a time, Renoir worked with figures so strongly outlined that they could have been put down by Ingres with a jackhammer. By 1892, the year with which the LACMA show starts, he had drifted back toward a fluctuating Impressionist brushstroke. Firmly contoured or flickering, his softly sculpted women are...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: La Vie en Rose | 2/18/2010 | See Source »

In an effort to solve the problem, British Justice Secretary Jack Straw recently called on Facebook to shut down the profile pages of more than 30 prisoners who were known to have used the site to target their victims. "The abuse of social-networking sites by prisoners is offensive to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Prisoners Harass Their Victims Using Facebook | 2/18/2010 | See Source »

Granted, in snowboard cross, the Olympic sport in which athletes race four at a time down a mountain on a narrow, twisting track that's filled with perilous jumps, crashes are part of the game. But on Tuesday, things were getting ridiculous. Riders weren't just wiping out during their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Are the Winter Games Too Dangerous? | 2/17/2010 | See Source »

Claire Chapotot of France went flying off a bump and skidded on her behind before coming to a stop. "Ooohhhh, that's got to hurt," yelped one of the p.a. guys. American Callan Chythlook-Sifsof smashed her back against the snow after bungling a landing; somehow, she bounced back up...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Are the Winter Games Too Dangerous? | 2/17/2010 | See Source »

It's hard to imagine Gosling submitting to such a panel or any authority, except perhaps the highest. "If there's a heaven and [the dead lover] is looking down, he'll be proud of me," said Gosling, who declared before his arrest that he would not cooperate with an...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A TV Confession Reignites Britain's Euthanasia Debate | 2/17/2010 | See Source »

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