Word: everly
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Mondrian gave the painting as a gift in 1925, and it has remained in the same family ever since. The family protected the painting, hardly exposing it, Cooper said, describing his delight upon finding a thick layer of dust on the top edge of the paining...
...think it's ever a risk, because Paul does know you so well, that the characters he writes for you are too specific to you, that they're not enough of a stretch of your abilities...
...Yeah.... I hadn't ever thought of it that way, but a lot of the great strength I think he has is as an audience. You know, people think of directors as, "Now go there! Go there! Now do this! Now, turn those lights up!" Paul can do all of that, but I think his real, like, secret weapon with actors is, he really listens. He's sitting there...staring intently at what you're doing and watching every single subtle little change that you make from take to take, and gets in there and talks with you about...
...enormous talent for portraiture. Early on he takes the monumentally cocky step of signing only his first name-no "van Rijn"-as if he knew his paintings would be studied for centuries to come. His understanding of humans and their personae was without parallel. Schama writes, "No painter would ever understand the theatricality of social life as well as Rembrandt. He saw the actors in men and the men in actors...
...during which Microsoft became the world's most valuable firm and Gates its wealthiest individual. In that time, Gates also embodied the resurgence of American entrepreneurship and inspired a generation of the brazen, young and techno-savvy to take chances. Some have argued that no single person has ever created more global capital. Yet the uncertainty brought on by the lessened role of the tech revolution's leader comes just as huge questions are emerging about the future of the software industry...