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Sometimes it doesn't pay to be too popular. By the time of his death in 1985, at age 97, Marc Chagall was suburbia's favorite genius. He offered modernism without tears, without the headaches of Cubism or the thin air of abstraction. For middle-class Jews, he was also the chronicler of the world of their fathers, the poet of that lost, enchanted universe. By the mid-1960s, when Fiddler on the Roof took its title from one of Chagall's best-known motifs, his popular reputation was at its peak. But in the eyes of an art world...
...imputed but never proved." You'd think Schickel was talking about a mollusk. By claiming that such intelligence can only be "imputed," he showed his ignorance of the complex creatures that surround us. This is an old, mechanistic view of animal intelligence that provides a pretext for cruelty. MARC SMITH Peterborough...
...like the waters that separate Miami and Havana--inviting, sun-kissed, capable of rising up in a storm. Cruz sang with everybody who was anybody in Latin music--fronting Johnny Pacheco's band, appearing with Tito Puente in the movie The Mambo Kings--and many future somebodies were listening. Marc Anthony, Jennifer Lopez, Ruben Blades and La India acknowledged her influence. Known as the Queen of Salsa, she once said, "Salsa is ... all the Cuban rhythms under one name." You could say the same about Cruz. --By Christopher John Farley
...Jean-Marie Messier, the ousted CEO of Vivendi Universal. Jean-René Fourtou, Messier's successor, described the payout as "indecent" and promised to contest the decision. He has little room for maneuver: the payout was written into a U.S. contract agreed to last July by two Vivendi directors, Marc Viénot and Edgar Bronfman Jr., to persuade Messier to depart quickly and quietly. The full board rejected the contract days later, after Messier had quit. The arbitration ruling highlights a fundamental difference between U.S. and European corporate practice: in France and some other European nations, a company board...
...DIED. MARC-VIVIEN FOE, 28, Cameroon-born international footballer, after collapsing during the semifinal against Colombia in the Confederations Cup, of suspected heart failure or aneurysm; in Lyon. A member of Cameroon's victorious team at the African Cup of Nations in 2002, the midfielder spent most of his professional career with French clubs Lens and Lyon?winning the French-league title with both teams?and with England's West Ham United and, most recently, Manchester City (on loan from Lyon). Fo?'s death stoked criticism that crowded football schedules are becoming dangerously taxing for players and renewed criticism...