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Even when the Big Guy himself is not explicitly mentioned--and he's mentioned plenty--the current crop of tabloid offerings brims with so many transcendent crises (life-threatening illnesses, brushes with sudden death, ruminations on mortality, profligate lives steered straight and narrow) that it feels like one long episode of Touched by an Angel .
Most notable is the revelation that a financial scandal involving close family friends forced Matisse to quit the experimental phase he was starting and focus on more salable works: "Spurling brushes aside all our preconceptions about the painter to reveal a personality--and a personal history--none of us had guessed at" (Richard Dorment, the New York Review of Books ). Also praised is the insight into the role Matisse's wife, Amélie, played in fostering his talents.
Whatever one's opinion of the paintings' success, they tell a poignant story of resilience and frailty, and of an artist who was passionately unwilling to put away his brushes.
The summit, "with its all-night sessions and constant brushes with disaster, was a setting in which Clinton's penchant for keeping all the balls in the air at once seemed to thrive," said the Post . "Clinton relied on a personal style of charm, persistence, and language that could be artfully imprecise," particularly when Netanyahu sought his assurance that the United States would release Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard.
There are cases filled with elaborate and witty helmets from the early 17 th century, shaped like the knobby turbo seashell or with rabbit ears appended; swords designed more to impress than to kill; saddles decorated with such whimsical and hardly threatening motifs as powder puffs and cosmetic brushes.
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