Word: brokenly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Nothing will come of nothing" is an axiom of art history, and the notion that Impressionism was a matter of innocent eyes doing sunlight with broken touches without "academic" preconceptions is strictly for the birds in the sunlit trees. What's wrong with the name Impressionism is that it suggests quick shots of fleeting things. Yet the main progenitor of New Painting was the most solid, stubborn and material painter imaginable, Gustave Courbet. A Renoir like Bather with a Terrier, 1870, could hardly exist without the example of Courbet's wardrobe nudes. Courbet was the doubting Thomas of painting...
...extraordinary display of last-minute dealmaking, even for an industry that has seen more than its share of shotgun weddings and broken marriages. For the past few weeks, the giants of the telecommunications industry have engaged in a high-stakes game of corporate musical beds that left some of the most eligible partners sleeping alone and created some awfully strange bedfellows...
This fall, however, Due South has broken the prime-time barrier. Produced by Toronto-based Alliance Communications, the series has done surprisingly well for CBS in the ratings (and even better on Canada's CTV, where it is the highest-rated Canadian show ever). The culture clash between a Dudley Do-Right Mountie (Paul Gross) and his streetwise partner (David Marciano) is so genially caricatured that it has charmed audiences on both sides of the border. "I think Canadians like the fact we're offending Americans, and Americans think we're offending Canadians," says creator Paul Haggis. "That's part...
...trend that seems to be reflected beyond the walls of the Harvard community. The citizens of Massachusetts--and across the nation--have grown weary of "politics as usual," of the failed expectations and broken promises of yet another presidential administration. It is this frustration that has ignited a feeling of helplessness, leading many to sequester themselves from the entire political process...
Senior Dion Del Monte is the top returning forward for Dartmouth, while junior Bill Kelleher should add to the offense (he had a strong freshman campaign but missed most of last year with a broken arm). If the defense can gel and the offense can stay healthy, then maybe the Big Green could sneak up into one of the final ECAC playoff spots in March...