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PRINCE Turki is no ordinary filthy rich philanthropist. Last year, two women who were hired to care for the prince's children were "rescued" by police after they dropped notes from a London hotel window saying they were being held captive. Seven other women who worked for the prince made similar claims. In 1982, the prince, his wife and their agents allegedly assaulted Miami police officers searching for a servant thought to be held as a slave. (The prince later sued, claiming the police were the ones who had been violent...
...colors in his works are vivid and the forms solid but curvaceous. Forms rendered by line and those denoted by blocks of color are in a captivating interplay. One piece which exemplifies the interchange remarkably well is the 1947 work, Woman at a Window. The solid blocks of monochrome color are seen through the decisive black curves that define the nude figure. We cannot be certain that the figure is the subject matter of the work. We begin to suspect that the blocks of color--overpowering the transparent figure by virtue of their expansiveness and contrasting tones--are themselves...
...contrast with a study of the same name and subject done eight years earlier. Considering these two pieces, we can see a progression in Le Corbusier's work from a more traditional composition and depiction to more adventurous experimentation with form and color. In the earlier Woman at a Window, the outlines of the subject contain a color distinct from that of a fairly sizeable background. In the later work, Le Corbusier uses color independently of the constraints of subject and background...
Peering out the window of his Air Force C-20 en route to visit the Special Forces units, Schwarzkopf contemplated the empty desert below. "There's no front line," he said. "If Saddam were to attack, I would want to suck him into the desert as far as I could. Then I'd pound the living hell out of him. Finally, I'd engulf him and police him up. It's that simple...
...were just lying here and suddenly there was a crack and a bang," said Leonard. "It sounded like someone had thrown in a brick through the window...a good, loud noise." The robber entered the store by breaking its front window, police said...