Word: beaux
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...hard to argue with that. From a Left Bank living room on a sumptuous Beaux Arts boulevard, you had to shut your eyes hard to picture the Ozarks. About 50 Democrats had squeezed into the Paris apartment for a fund-raising conference call organized by Democrats Abroad, joined by Democrats in Vienna, Strasbourg, London and Cambridge, England, in settings that no doubt were also jarringly different from St. Louis. In this audience, there was an obvious question - a "litmus test," as one Paris Democrat put it - for candidates: How would you have voted on last week's detainee bill, which...
...that the test of a first-rate intelligence is to keep two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time. But it's not an easy task to keep two disturbing conflicts in one's head all the time. Indeed, as W.H. Auden wrote in "Musée des Beaux Arts," his beautiful poem about how life goes on in the midst of tragedy, "everything turns away quite leisurely from the disaster." But it's our job as journalists to do the opposite: to remind you not to turn away. To me, one of our tasks is to take...
...Born in Budapest to a Hungarian mother partly of Jewish extraction, and a Sikh father, Sher-Gil studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, where she absorbed influences from Gaugin to contemporary Hungarian art. At age 21, she settled in India, which had seen nothing like her. Most men who met her became infatuated; her numerous lovers included British journalist Malcolm Muggeridge, and perhaps even Jawaharlal Nehru, India's future prime minister. Rumors grew furiously but Sher-Gil doesn't seem to have cared; her self-portraits, which, like her nude studies of women, are icons of Indian...
...excavation “of archaeological sites in the procurement of ‘beaux objects’ without accompanying context...amounts to ripping pages out of the book of human history,†Randall W. White, a professor of anthropology at New York University, wrote in an e-mail...
...series called Theaters, Sugimoto uses movies and movie houses to probe the nature of light and time. Traveling to some of America's finest Beaux Arts and Art Deco theaters, Sugimoto shoots their interiors by keeping his camera lens open during an entire film screening. Burning a complete movie into a single photographic frame leaves every print a glowing, radiant white. These photos are thus not just gorgeous documentation of theater interiors (some of them now demolished) but the screens are encapsulations of two hours of light, motion and experience into one dazzling instant...