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...sure, there are play structures that are unsafe. Many built before the 1970s were little more than steel towers over bare asphalt. "A lot of the playgrounds we grew up on were really kind of instruments of torture," says Kathryn Dresslar, a legislative aide who helped bring about new California regulations. In 1999, according to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, a quarter of a million American kids went from playgrounds to emergency rooms...
Delft had one outstanding painter of Protestant churches, Gerard Houckgeest, whose beautifully bare Interior of the Nieuwe Kerk in Delft with the Tomb of William the Silent, 1650, is composed with fanatical, emphatic strictness and gave rise to a whole dynasty of memorial church interiors. There were a few fine flower painters, like Balthasar van der Ast, whose elaborate portrait of variegated tulips in a vase could not, as the catalog interestingly points out, have been done from life. (At the height of the Dutch tulip mania, such rare blooms would never have been cut for a painter; he would...
...studio, normally a confining space cluttered with microphones and bulky sonic equipment, and opens it up, creating a free arena for artistic expression. Trueba's camera is sensual in its gaze as it caresses Elias' form on the piano. He lovingly traces down her slender figure, caressing her bare feet as they touch the pedals, thus turning her playing into a corporeally total experience, rather than a nexus between limbs and the mind. Alternately, when not gliding around the performers, Trueba breaks his musicians down into their component parts, focusing on agile fingers and tapping nimble feet. He savors...
...After chilling out for a bit, I head toward the bandits’ starting point—and suddenly see a woman’s bare buttocks in all their unobstructed glory...
...come as a complete shock. When Davidson started out, money ran freely. "The mood was, 'Gosh, Dell has oodles of loot,'" he says. "'Let's just spend, spend, spend.'" But last spring, when the dotcom bubble burst, everything changed. It was harder to get anything more than a bare-bones computer to work on, and training was halted for several months. "You could practically hear the screws being tightened," says Davidson...