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...contrast, Skidmore's applications tumbled almost 14% this spring, in line with plunges at seven of the country's top eight liberal-arts colleges and many others down the food chain. Skidmore's projected $51,196-a-year price tag makes it one of the nation's 10 most expensive schools, but its $223 million endowment--down 23% from its high about a year ago--is too small to bankroll financial aid for all who need it. Founded in 1903 as a women's college, Skidmore was long known for teaching art to well-heeled young ladies...
...Senate outsources the serious moving to a company. Still, there are some fragile pieces of art--all of them involve horses or places that horses graze or things horses like--that we can carry. I grab a foam-core-mounted map of Montana, and on the way to the new digs, Tester takes me down to the basement, where he worked in windowless offices for his first three months, holding staff meetings in the cafeteria, waiting for the office-shifting process to progress through the Senate. Mark Udall is now in Tester's old space, waiting. "It's just survival...
...effort to use the musical form to explore serious contemporary social issues: urban slums, race prejudice, the scourge (ah, the '50s!) of "juvenile delinquency." It was also a groundbreaking marriage of pop entertainment and "high culture": choreography that featured classical ballet moves, a score with elements of modernist art music, and a story whose tragic arc was as close to grand opera as the American musical had come. (See the top 10 theater productions of the past year...
...tough demeanor, however, Varda is a people person. Like her films, she digs to the very core of humanity and allows it to resurface, placing her camera exactly where it needs to be in order to piece together compelling, altogether beautiful and haunting stories.Varda began her career in the arts as a photographer, but she yearned to go beyond the still image in her work. Her most recent film, “Les plâges d’Agnès” (“The Beaches of Agnes”) is an autobiographical portrait of her life...
...there really people out there - aside from characters in James Bond movies - who like to have illicit pieces of art in their homes...