Word: artful
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...finally, if all this hasn’t been bad enough for Yale, the fine art auctioneer Christie’s is apparently selling a human skull that the Skull and Bones Society once used as a ballot box. Now there’s an artifact we wouldn't want...
...feature films written and directed by Eric Rohmer. The characters in his films were eloquent, addled, obsessively pursuing a line of romantic rhetoric or analyzing the erotic attraction of a teenager's knee. Applying a wry, professorial tone to the book of love, Rohmer beguiled two generations of art-house denizens. His purchase on their finer fancies began with My Night at Maud's, the 1969 chatfest that swept him into the global spotlight, and ended Jan. 11, with his death in Paris...
...series airs on Tuesdays at 9 p.m. E.T. on Discovery Health). Flashbacks show unwittingly pregnant women partying, playing sports, looking at their heavyset bodies in mirrors - and then, as the grand finale in many episodes, hovering over a toilet, looking really, really surprised. (See pictures of pregnant-belly art...
...pieces are subtler. Hamra Abbas' Ride 2, a fiberglass sculpture of the legendary Buraq, the Prophet Muhammad's winged steed with a human head, is local in its imagery. But the glinting cherry-red form also recalls a highly waxed Ford Mustang. Like it, Pakistan and its revving art scene are poised to drive into the future with one foot in tradition, the other in modernity. May they cruise, not stall...
...believed, Kim Jong Il - clearly back in charge, sources in Seoul say, after his stroke in September 2008 - is said to be readying for a visit to Beijing to meet with President Hu Jintao. (Foreign Ministry spokesperson Jiang Yu, showing if nothing else that the Chinese have mastered the art of the nondenial denial, said that she had "not heard of such news.") (See pictures of of Kim Jong...