Word: bernard
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...NATURAL RESOURCES The price of metals and other raw materials is rising. Bernard Horn, manager of the Polaris Global Value fund, is overweighting resource-rich South Africa and buying the stocks of materials companies around the globe like paper firms Sappi in South Africa (ADR up 18% in the past 12 months) and Svenska Cellulosa, or SCA, in Sweden (ADR up 8%). Other countries rich in natural resources and poised for outsize benefit are Australia and Canada...
...This is how Rembrandt painted angels," Vincent van Gogh wrote to Emile Bernard in 1888. "He paints a self-portrait, old, toothless, wrinkled, wearing a cotton cap, a painting from life, in a mirror ... and, why or how I cannot tell ... Rembrandt paints a supernatural angel with a Da Vinci smile within that old man who resembles himself." That description certainly fits the superb 1669 Rembrandt self-portrait, on loan from London's National Gallery, currently hanging beside Van Gogh's own 1888 Self-Portrait as an Artist. It is the centerpiece of "Vincent's Choice...
...Still, Emily knows in her heart that the plan isn’t feasible, based on her experience with a St. Bernard in a New York City apartment...
...writers. Along with Carmichael, Shelby J. Braxton-Brooks ’03, Ellenor J. Honig ’04 and Dan J. Poston ’04 will direct their own plays and Joy B. Fairfield ’03 will direct HouseBreakHeart, a play she adapted from George Bernard Shaw’s Heartbreak House...
...little lesson in art as theology: "Here's how you see God. He's a Columbia recording artist. ... You got your idea of God from where most gay kids get it - the album cover of ?My Fair Lady.' Original cast. It's got this Hirschfeld caricature of George Bernard Shaw up in the clouds, manipulating Rex Harrison and Julie Andrews on strings, like marionettes. It was your parents' album, you were little, you thought it was a picture...