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World poverty is another issue in which the Clinton administration made headway through globalization, by relieving the debts and lowering import barriers for developing nations, as well as making more abstract commitments towards universal education and removing the digital divide, he said...
...characters' faces at close range and hear every one of their vocal inflections spoken only a few feet away from you. J. Michael Griggs' set design for the Boston Center for the Arts Black Box Theater is not a far cry from just such an atmosphere. His abstract black, stone and wood arrangement is reminiscent of nothing in particular, but it seems not too far from a misty Irish morning or a fish and chips shop by the shore. The real advantage of the black box, however, is its size. Walking up and down the aisles, staring audience members...
...more abstract level, participating in Section 11 makes us feel good --when we can get over the guilt trip of seeing mothers cover their children's ears. It's a non-Ad-Boardable display of behavior unbecoming of a Harvard student...
...definitive influence on him, however, was the 15th century Italian painter Piero della Francesca, whose cycle of murals Legend of the True Cross Balthus saw on a visit to Italy in 1926. Piero's unique combination of physical intensity and complex, abstract formality seems to have shaped Balthus' deepest pictorial ambitions. But the streak of ambiguous desire he brought to his imagery of the nude was peculiar to Balthus, and it invested his work with a permanent scent of scandal...
...Balthus' talents did not run to avant-garde ambitions. He was entirely a figurative painter--there was no abstract phase to his work--and his reverence for past masters, from Piero and Poussin to Courbet and Manet, was so absolute that his work is a virtually seamless homage to them, not so much in subject matter as in studiously quoted poses and meticulously conscious structures. His power of organization was awesome; his spread of quotation, wide. What caused the individual citations to hang together, though, was his eye for nature. Nowhere is this clearer than in his huge composition...