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...really doing well, you see, until I realized that time was running out and I still hadn't answered one of the essays. Then I panicked. Instead of keeping cool and answering the question as best I could, my mind just went blank. I didn't play it right, Mike. You might say I passed when I should have...
...their poses, while Ilia laments the apparent loss of Idamante. But such effects are redeemed by the cast-and by the brilliantly inventive lighting. In Gilbert Hemsley, Ponnelle has the best lighting designer in American opera. Hemsley paints on Ponnelle's single set as though it were a blank canvas, creating reality out of apparition and believability out of legend. That is, of course, what opera is all about...
From frogs to DNA, from Washington to Lebanon, thesis topics range widely. Writing a thesis can be a tremendous challenge, and for many people offers a welcome chance to study a subject in great depth. But, for others, a thesis means only sleepless nights and blank pages in the typewriter...
...Protestant work ethic is alive and more than well among older Americans. Study after study has shown what many oldsters feel in their bones: without employment, their lives go blank. They become listless and preoccupied with their frailties, real or imagined. There is a disproportionate death rate among those forced to retire, and 25% of all known suicides are committed by people over 65. Beyond that, years of substantial inflation have eroded their pensions and kept many of them from enjoying the often illusory, but highly touted leisure pursuits of their allegedly golden years. Says Joseph Schwartz, who retired after...
...ground on which it flourished was a traumatized Europe whose ruins and shaken regimes offered a kind of blank tablet: any design for Utopia, once drawn there, might stick. At one end of Europe, constructivism was apolitical; its center was the De Stijl group in Holland, led by Mondrian and Van Doesburg. The bright shuttles of color-red, blue, yellow, white and black, without tints or complementaries or tones-in works like Mondrian's Color Composition A, 1917, or Van Does-burg's majestic but unbuilt design of 1923 for a university hall-refer to no ideology...