Word: artisticness
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...Gilding the lily - casting the everyday and unexceptional in the most grandiose terms - has always been a weakness of boomers, who in their youth would sometimes compare Captain Marvel comic books to the Sistine Chapel or call Yoko Ono an artist. Overstatement has been George W. Bush's prime rhetorical technique. When he drew our attention to a handful of troublesome regimes, he couldn't just call them troublesome regimes; instead they ballooned into an "axis of evil." His hope of stabilizing the Middle East by fostering self-government was not just a geostrategic Hail Mary - it would lead...
...have been sound insulated and all spa telephones are located in a soundproof room). When your session is done, you can relax in the tea lounge, bask on the sun terrace or pad around in your Frette robe admiring the artwork, which includes an installation by New York video artist Monika Bravo. The real point of difference, though, is the training given to the 50-strong staff. Covering 37 esoteric topics in over 530 hours of classroom and home study, and culminating in a 2 12?hour written paper and an oral exam in which the therapist must correctly diagnose...
...from the historian Paul Kennedy and some of Roosevelt's most prominent recent biographers, including Kathleen Dalton, Candice Millard and Patricia O'Toole. Presidential adviser Karl Rove sent in his story Friday morning, and it instantly became the endpiece of the package. The striking cover portrait is by the artist Michael J. Deas, who has now painted four of our Making of America cover images. D.W. Pine designed the splendid-looking package, Jackson Dykman created the one-of-a-kind graphics, Jay Colton was tireless in finding distinctive pictures, and reporters Andrea Dorfman and Deirdre van Dyk completely immersed themselves...
...Cutting through the myths and gossip, Dalmia shows that Sher-Gil was a serious artist intent upon bridging the gulf between the Western-educated Indian ?lite to which she belonged, and the impoverished millions surrounding them. She wrote of traveling through India and finding it full "of dark-bodied, sad-faced, incredibly thin men and women who move silently looking almost like silhouettes." She decided her task would be "to interpret the life of Indians, particularly the poor Indians pictorially; to paint those images of infinite submission and patience." This she did like no one before her, filling canvases with...
...South India, yet they could also be ancient hierophants sharing a hushed secret. In such works, writes Dalmia, "the contemporary [is] elevated to the level of the classical." In a tragically brief career, Sher-Gil did much to introduce her country to the idea of the free-spirited artist, and to show them that art could interpret Indian life for Indians. As Dalmia puts it: "She introduced the modern into India...