Word: chalks
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...President George W. Bush was telling reporters, there is absolutely no doubt that Vice President Dick Cheney will beat the allegation that Halliburton Corp. cooked the books while he was CEO. And as for that slide in the stock market, chalk it up to a "hangover" from the Roaring Nineties (when Someone Else was in charge). According to a Bush adviser, the President is focused on the big picture and is "relatively uninterested in the daily economic ups and downs." Would that include the 390-point implosion in the Dow last Friday, which sent stocks hurtling through post...
Teaching at Summerbridge has been a slap in the face (picture it from an 11-year-old with a chalk-filled eraser in his hand). I’m struck daily by the difficulties of teaching, of disciplining students, of being white in a mostly minority group. But seeing what school is like with girls and boys in the same classroom makes me glad that I didn’t experience it until college...
...Bench portray a serene, carefree world bathed in sunshine. Two of Cassatt's pictures, Young Woman and Her Child and Sara and Her Mother Admiring the Baby, are pastels on paper. Cassatt's failing eyesight made it progressively dif.cult for her to paint in oil; working with chalk-like sticks allowed her to bring feathery lightness and luminosity to her pictures. Hassam is said to be one of the artists who most successfully adapted the spirit of French Impressionism to the American theme, as depicted in his 1918 work, Avenue of the Allies, Fifth Avenue, New York. Part...
...Alps, designer Walter Maurer decided the coarse wool was ideal for heavy-duty bags, rucksacks and key rings. Made in the tiny Swiss village of Törbel by Maurer and a local cobbler, the collection is sold to the "trendy, techno generation" in Europe and Japan, Maurer says. Chalk up another victory for the Swiss. - Helena Bachmann/Geneva SEEN ON THE CHARITY CIRCUIT Giorgio Armani, the Next Pierre Cardin? In becoming a goodwill ambassador for the United Nations last month, Giorgio Armani is not only following in the footsteps of such luminaries as Muhammad Ali and Michael Douglas...
...ignoring a women of his own shade to aspire to that wan princess. Her lightness put her atop the hierarchy of virtue or, at least, of perceived romantic appeal. Like Griffith, Micheaux's feminine ideal seemed to be prim, virginal Lillian Gish; he insisted that his actresses wear chalk makeup to make them seem whiter, lighter - Gishier. "The first offense of the new film is its persistent vaunting of intra-racial color fetishism, "wrote the black critic Theophilus Lewis, reviewing a 1931 Micheaux talkie, "Daughter of the Congo," in the New York Amsterdam News. "Even if the picture possessed...