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Calder's jump into originality as a sculptor is one of those flash-bang conversion tales in which the legends of early modern art abound. It seems that in 1930 he went to visit Mondrian, the great Dutch abstractionist, in his Paris studio. He already admired Mondrian's work, but he had never seen its environment before--that fanatically judged, ordered workplace of white and primary colors where even the Victrola was painted red. Rectangles of painted cardboard were pinned around the walls, and Calder was seized with the desire to see them move. They should oscillate at different speeds...
Perhaps due to the small number of active gamers, stereotypes about the player population abound. Turning against such misconceptions, gamers argued they are a diverse...
...environmentalists willing to forsake leftist loyalties and embrace nationalism, strange and powerful alliances abound. For there is no doubt that hostility to free trade is growing on the right as well, visible in the opposition of some conservatives to fast track and the MAI. A nationalist, antiglobalization alliance might offer environmentalists something they have rarely tasted in past decades: power. But could they still call themselves liberals...
Such a study doesn't exist for the moment. But believers abound. Says Belle: "It's this or full body lipo...
Which position is correct? The answer to that question is not clear, but one thing is: Answers abound. Since January, most Americans have developed genuine opinions regarding sexual harassment. Yet those opinions will not influence the law, for it is made not by duly elected representatives, but by unaccountable bureaucrats at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and by the justices of the Supreme Court...