Word: bourbon
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Just substitute "provinces" for "houses" and "Paris" for "University Hall" in the first statement, then switch "Harvard" and "Deans" to "France" and "Bourbon kings" in the second...
...keeping both masters and students out of the decision on randomization, the administration is making the same mistakes as did the House of Bourbon. Unless it improves its attitudes about housing, University Hall may find students deserting the houses in favor of a more enlightened system of liberty, equality, and fraternities...
...fascination to eyes conditioned by the spontaneity of painting since Manet, for now that Velazquez's paint has aged, one sees the radical shifts and erasures of form below the unperturbed surface. There is no texture he cannot paint, from the massive chains of silver embroidery that anchor a Bourbon Queen's black dress to the bottom of the canvas, their slightly tarnished sparkle amazingly conveyed in opaque blobs of gray and white, to the hair of a hunting dog's leg whose living animal nature gets its due in three long and five short strokes of the brush...
Velazquez's portraits of Philip IV are the most remarkable biography of a monarch in all art, spanning his life from the confidence of youth to the melancholy and distance of his afflicted age. The face thickens, the eyes sag, the Bourbon lip takes on a heavy repressed pathos; you can almost see it quiver. Only the mustache, whose upswept prongs will be imitated by Salvador Dali's, seems alert, like antennae. "It is now nine years since any ((portrait)) has been made," Philip IV noted in 1653, in the last decade of his and his painter's lives...
Michael's mother, Candance Thorp, admits she drank up to half of a fifth of Jim Beam bourbon every day while she was pregnant. But in a trial that began last week in Seattle, she blames the Chicago distiller for her child's injuries because the bottles did not carry labels warning that alcohol could harm unborn children. The distiller claims that doctors had urged Thorp to stop drinking while pregnant...