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...William Perry today said the U.S. has offered to sell F-16 fighter jets to Poland and "a number of Central European countries." But caveat emptor: TIME's Thompson says the jets are probably the same 200 older models that the Pentagon has failed to unload on the Philippines, Morocco and Venezuela. "You buy them for $8 million," Thompson says, "but you have to have $6 million in improvements done on each...
...Morocco meant both these things. "This people is wholly antique," he wrote in Tangier; its Arab men and Jewish women -- Arab women were not paintable, since they would not remove their veils for a Western stranger -- possessed, in his eyes, "the majesty which is lacking among ourselves in the gravest circumstances." Years later he confided in a letter to a friend that "it was among these people that I really discovered for myself the beauty of antiquity." And not only of antiquity, either. De Mornay was amused to see that when Delacroix was finally admitted to a harem, he became...
...Delacroix, this antiquity involved color, as for Ingres -- his opposite -- it did not. David and Ingres had given France a colorless antiquity, an abstracted classicism of white marble. What Delacroix got from the arts of Morocco -- woven and dyed fabrics, leather, tiles and pots -- was a sense of extraordinarily vibrant and free color, "barbaric" in French eyes but wholly natural (or so he now realized...
...After Morocco, Delacroix lost whatever interest he might once have felt in the mandatory artist's trip to Italy. "Rome is no longer in Rome," he would say. "The Romans and Greeks are here at my door, and I know them face-on; the marbles are truth itself, but you have to know how to read them, and we poor moderns have only seen hieroglyphs in them." Morocco saved him from the abstraction that had weakened French responses to the classic. A painting like his Military Exercises of the Moroccans (1832) shows Delacroix using real life -- the ceremonial charge...
...legacy of Delacroix's mission to Morocco...