Word: abstraction
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...abstract level, our goals are to educate the people about funk music, to allow them to express their inner groove, feel the funk that permeates the universe and unleash their inner booty shaker," says Grandmaster of Funk Eric R. Rosenbaum...
Corcoran said that abstract principles are no substitute for concrete clauses in the merger document...
...school escorted by federal Marshals. His commonfolk, humorous and brave and spiritual to the core, became icons to generations. Yet a lifetime's work--nearly 4,000 smartly rendered pictures--never brought Rockwell acclaim in the inner circles of art that embraced everything from Cubism to Abstract Expressionism to Pop Art during his long career. Now a huge survey of his work is being launched at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta and landing six stops later at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City. But for all the overexertions of the catalog's scholarly essays to transform Rockwell...
...stranger starts whispering gruff poetry into your ear. That's Tricky, the prince of trip-hop, and a dues-paying member of the musical avant-garde. In his mesmerizing new album he collaborates with hip-hoppers DJ Muggs (of Cypress Hill) and Grease. They help bring his almost perversely abstract compositions back down to the street, grounding them with raw raps and blunt beats. Tricky remains endearingly elusive, delivering almost all his vocals sotto voce, winding his way through the shadows of his songs...
...transition to meat eating. Then, somewhere between 2 million and 1 million years ago, came the dramatic growth of the brain and our ancestors' first emergence from Africa. Finally, just a few tens of thousands of years ago, our own species learned to use that powerful organ for abstract thought, which quickly led to art, music, language and all the other skills that have enthroned humans as the unchallenged rulers of their planet...