Word: barings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Giotto painted his Bible stories and tales of saints across the cathedral walls of Italy. Yet we see his brilliance today in a bare handful of surviving documented works. The famous 28 scenes of St. Francis' life adorning the Upper Church in Assisi--to most of us the embodiment of his work--are of hotly disputed authorship. Yet many experts still believe no other known hand could have created the economical drama, narrative power and intense depiction of human emotion that mark the best of them...
...Amazon offices are scattered across Seattle: the flagship Art Deco Pacific Medical Center, the Pike Street skyscraper, the original Columbia building and so on. Stunning mountain-flanked views of Lake Washington and Puget Sound are the only luxury the spartan corporate aesthetic allows. Employees are crammed two to a bare-walled office and work at Bezos-designed desks made of old doors with legs stuck on them (design director Helen Owen bets me lunch that she will still have a door-desk in five years, even if Amazon flourishes...
...next 19 years in prison. So this reviewer sits back and waits for a movie about American racial politics to unfold. But wait, suddenly the movie turns into a lush exposition on the joys of boxing, and a long narrative with lovingly trained camera angles on Denzel Washington's bare body results. The movie, based on Rubin Carter's autobiography, The 16th Round, now seems to join in the trend of a new wave of boxing films, such as the upcoming Play It To The Bone, Fight Club and a biography of Muhammed Ali, in discussing the way Man needs...
BEEF: Beef--injected with hormones STUNT: Topless in Seattle, the better to bare their convictions...
...normal humans, if any, are in fact fundamentally unfit. Rather, most of us saunter between states of competency and the incorrect degree of qualification. But most importantly, we are all qualified to some degree (even if it be the bare minimum) and have the ability and potential to further that qualification...