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...last time there was a major Turner show in the U.S., 41 years ago, he was treated as a forerunner not only of the Impressionists but also of the Abstract Expressionists and color-field painters, of Mark Rothko and his pulsing fogs or Morris Louis and his washes of diluted pigment. But in recent years, scholars have been at pains to draw Turner back into the context of his times, to emphasize that he was eager to paint history and contemporary events and to look to the past as much as the future...
Fans don't really care how their teams win. They aren't moral universalists; they don't care about being fair to the other guys. In the abstract, fans oppose cheating. They may even oppose cheating by their own team, since the team could get caught, thus eliciting penalties that outweigh any potential gain. They may also fear the psychological penalties: if your team wins but people think it cheated, it's harder to do a victory dance around the office watercooler. But fearing the consequences of cheating is a far cry from opposing it because it's wrong. When...
Fans don't really care how their teams win. They aren't moral universalists; they don't care about being fair to the other guys. In the abstract, fans oppose cheating. They may even oppose cheating by their own team, since the team could get caught, thus eliciting penalties that outweigh any potential gain. They may also fear the psychological penalties: If your team wins but people think it cheated, it's harder to do a victory dance around the office water cooler. But fearing the consequences of cheating is a far cry from opposing it because it's wrong...
...survival is the ability of its Chinese heritage to bring visitors and dollars to its Main Street - a narrow strip of historic buildings and art galleries. "I'm hoping that businesspeople will see the potential to make money," says Chu. At the Ning Hou gallery, a Shanghainese artist's abstract sculptures and impressionist paintings carry price tags as high as $50,000. Inside the Dai Loy gambling museum, exhibits show how punters used teacups and buttons for table games to disguise gambling paraphernalia from the police. Dealers also kept brass knuckles and lead pipes on hand in case of violence...
...about "helping each woman create an authentic connection between how she feels internally versus how she looks externally," Cona says. As Rose Weitz, author of Rapunzel's Daughters: What Women's Hair Tells Us About Women's Lives, put it, "Even if, in the abstract, we think we look all right with gray hair, we nonetheless feel as if we are losing our 'real selves' if we no longer have our 'real hair color' - the color we had when we were young and looked our best." We're not talking about the fate of civilization here, but that semantic backflip...