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...they're clothed, it's in the latest mode, like the sitter in Portrait of Madame M. (1930), whose dress is an up-to-the-minute bias-cut number. Lempicka's portraits aren't just fashion plates, though?she recorded her sitters' idiosyncratic personalities and features, cropping the image closely so that the figure and its costume fill the frame, sometimes leaving a small high window for a distorted view of fantasy skyscrapers right out of the 1927 German movie Metropolis...
...HAVE DOCUMENTED THE BIAS YOU'VE ENCOUNTERED BECAUSE OF YOUR RELIGION. IS BEING A MUSLIM MORE DIFFICULT NOW THAN BEFORE 9/11...
...increasing quality of the paper--and that can be laid at the feet of Carroll," says Orville Schell, dean of the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley. Even Richard Riordan, the former Los Angeles mayor who had long complained of the paper's liberal bias, is a convert, won over by such coverage as the paper's evenhanded reporting on racial tensions at a hospital in South Los Angeles. "I think Carroll has done a sensational job," says Riordan, whose plans to set up a rival paper are now consigned to the back burner...
...visible to shift the American approach to the occupation of Iraq. "If [British influence] is unacceptable or unwelcome [in Washington], there is no case for pursuing policies that are doomed to failure," the ambassadors thundered. Downing Street tried to paint them mostly as "camels," Arabists with an anti-Israeli bias, but the range of signatories was broader than that - and their letter reflects the anxieties of many serving diplomats and MPs as well. Still more worrisome for Blair is the growing unease among senior military officers about Britain's role in Iraq's occupation, now being amplified by the urgent...
...students’ attractiveness as employees is at all akin to college officials’ predictions and the White House Internship Office’s numbers, we can only expect PHC and other colleges to fill what is an immense demand for a higher education with a conservative bias...