Word: brightness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...partners developed a number of experiments that proved even smart people will arrive at wrong answers to fairly simple questions, depending on how information is presented to them. In one example, they told test subjects about a woman named Linda, who "is 31 years old, single, outspoken, and very bright." They added that Linda "majored in philosophy," "was deeply concerned with issues of discrimination" and "participated in anti-nuclear demonstrations...
...that Wiggles guitar for my son, but oh yeah, I just remembered we're out of toilet paper and toothpaste too." The "R" Market offers far more toddler food and snack options than typical supermarkets, and the presentation of the Phillipsburg shop, for one, was neat, tight and bright. "I'll definitely use it," says Jennifer Stroka, a veterinary technician and mother of a 4-year-old girl. "It's like one-stop shopping. It looks great, and will make my life easier." If there are enough moms out there thinking like Stroka, Toys "R" Us may be gift-wrapping...
Much of Kandinsky's early work drew on the folk art he encountered in Germany and in Russia. The works depict an ideal premodern Russia full of riders, onion domes and walled towns. But even in these first paintings, bright colors were used for effect, not naturalism - trees could be red, hills and horses blue. Pure color would become the central focus of his best works, a focus he pondered in his 1911 manifesto of abstraction, Concerning the Spiritual in Art. Art, he wrote in the book, comes from within, from "inner necessity," and colors and shapes speak to people...
...asked to join the staff of the forward-looking Bauhaus art school in Germany, and the chance to teach turned his creative light up full again. His theories about pure form and color became student exercises; this was when he started painting his signature hard-edged abstracts: bright, lighthearted, with their own internal logic. Black lines, now severely clear-cut, are a skeleton for vividly colored shapes on a pale background. New motifs appear: jagged saw teeth, rainbows, triangles, circles. Though none of these canvases have subjects, pictograms float through them - sometimes recognizable boats, creating structure with their masts...
...attributed part of the success to the smaller, “more intimate” venue. This year, the catwalk and V.I.P. seating were placed on the basketball courts, with additional seating available in the bleachers. Last year’s event was held in the expansive Bright Hockey Center with general admissions and V.I.P seating both available and varying distances from the stage...