Word: artes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...also Theatricals historian, callsthe performance a "piece of art that is truly oneof a kind...
...made sure it kept the engine design to itself, while the chassis is that of a Mercedes A-class sedan. The car's styling comes largely from SMH Automotive, the Swiss company that uses modular design to make Longines and Swatch watches (Smart, in fact, stands for Swatch-Mercedes art). SMH owned 19% of MCC until Daimler-Benz bought its stake in MCC before merging with Chrysler in October. "Basically, you could say the Smart's design, engine and chassis platform were all done by the assembler, because Swatch was an owner at the time," Franzen says. "These three things...
Powell briefly attended London's venerable Central Saint Martin's College of Art & Design before dropping out to work as an assistant designer in theater. Her movie career was launched in the mid '80s when she met director Derek Jarman, with whom she collaborated on Caravaggio...
...interiors gives way to more sumptuous surfaces: marble, Turkish carpets and gilded walls of embossed leather, all of which he painted with virtuosity. The people are dressed to the nines. The idea that De Hooch sold out to them, and to their way of life, thus sending his art into decadence, was widespread once. It isn't borne out by the pictures themselves. A strangely moody image from 1677, of a couple eating oysters in a shadowed courtyard while a black servant plays the viola, is one of the best of all his paintings. But the earlier, inward, reflective...
...buying into the Big Creep's definition of victory: three-quarters of the country believe he is untrustworthy and lacking ethical standards, and they're popping corks. Party leaders are united in defense of this man--their guiding principles of moral and legal relativity have been elevated to an art form (one standard for liberal Presidents, another for everyone else). The politics of personal destruction that they invented (with attacks on Robert Bork, Clarence Thomas, et al.) has, on Clinton's behalf, been perfected by pornographers and private eyes...