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...each other to stay in touch. Although he and Jackie IM several times a week and Dan says he would like to work on their relationship, one of the few times he remembers calling Jackie Mom to her face was four years ago at church. "She was at the altar praying, and I put my arm around her, and I called her Mom. I think she cried," he says. Jackie says she knew all along that it would be hard for Dan to call her Mom. "I realized that it was because of the loss...
...find their way to minor, more idiosyncratic, less well-connected but maybe more lovable books. And the Times project, having only one book on it, isn't even a list - it's not even a pantheon, it's a monotheisum. A library shouldn't be a temple, with one altar to one book. It's a mysterious, winding bazaar, wherein you should be able to wander until you stumble over some dusty, long-neglected wonder that nobody else would have spotted, and take it home with...
...Altar, Mexico. That town is crazy,” says Kyle De Beausset ’08.But De Beausset is not talking about the kind of Mexican crazy that happens when you mix margaritas in your mouth on the beach at 10 a.m.Instead, he’s referring to the last stop on his journey documenting the experience of South American migrant workers trying to make it to the United States. De Beausset is a native South American, fluent Spanish speaker, and an adventurer at heart. But towns like Altar will unnerve even the bravest among us. A JOURNEY THROUGH...
...when it comes down to it, I feel sorry for Viswanathan, whose talent seems to have been willingly squandered on the altar of ambition and mass production. But even if, as she now asserts, the echoes were the result of accidental influence, the fact that she used this novel packaging service should tell you something about artistic integrity...
...Christ's body as a laborious, undignified business. In The Lamentation, 1530-35, Christ's mother is seated on the ground, her son lying on her knees. A woman leans her head on Mary's shoulder-her face ugly with grief. His massive fresco, The Last Judgment, on the altar wall of the Sistine Chapel, was completed in 1541. Michelangelo painted no more after 1550, working instead on sculpture and architecture-he was now chief architect to St. Peter's in Rome. In his final years his drawing technique became more hesitant and misty. He used a lifetime spent studying...