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...master of the dot in French painting? Georges Seurat, most would answer. But there was at least one other: Seurat's friend and luminous fellow painter, Neo-Impressionist Paul Signac (1863-1935). Signac, an avid yachtsman, helped create the French Riviera as a subject for painting--and Saint-Tropez, where he settled from 1892 on, as a mecca for tourism. His pursuit of pure color sensation, the yellow of beaches and the purple of shade under the umbrella-pines, made his canvases radical in their time. Yet to a modern eye, his paradisiacal view of the world--a world...
There are people who attend karate exhibitions to marvel at the discipline and focus that the sport demands of its participants, and the ritualism that evokes hundreds of years of history. Then there is karate master Kazuyoshi Ishii, who just likes watching people get their teeth knocked...
...effeminate babe magnet, was the year's top-grossing film, raking in $4.7 million. (Says To today: "I've still no idea why the movie was so successful.") Justice, My Foot!, his period comedy with Stephen Chow, earned a gigantic $6.3 million. To's two collaborations with martial-arts master Ching Siu-tung?The Heroic Trio and Executioners, with Michelle Yeoh, Anita Mui and Maggie Cheung as magical crime fighters?were hits in Asian theaters and in video stores around the world...
...know that when Levy's internship at the Federal Bureau of Prisons ended, she was disappointed, and told her mother as much. Fascinated by law enforcement since high school, Levy had hoped the temporary work, a requirement for her master's degree in public administration, might lead to a job at the FBI. Instead, Levy was unceremoniously relieved of her duties in April when it was revealed she had completed her coursework more than three months earlier. Saddened but certainly not distraught by this turn of events, according to her family, Levy planned to return to Modesto in time...
...Riedel's flagship crystal is still produced in the time-honored way, with glowing lumps of molten glass mouth-blown into cast-iron molds and fitted with hand-fashioned stems and bases by master craftsmen working in two factories at Kufstein, in the Austrian Tyrol near the German border, and at Schneegattern, north of Salzburg. Riedel glasses are near-perfect examples of ongoing innovation in traditional craftsmanship...