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...career at the tail end of the 15th century, artists were seen as craftsmen rather than geniuses. His bourgeois father disapproved of his low-status career choice. Thankfully, however, about 600 of the drawings survive, and around 95 have been beautifully reassembled in an exhibition titled Michelangelo Drawings: Closer to the Master, which runs at London's British Museum until June 25. The drawings, taken from the museum's own collection and others in Oxford and the Netherlands, are displayed chronologically, next to small reproductions of the relevant finished works. Visitors can follow the artist's career as he followed...
...powerful attack. Though Lees-McRae jumped ahead by a 9-4 margin—driven again by Peoples’ strong serving—the Crimson clawed back and tied the score at 11. From that point on, neither team led by more than two points. Harvard finally moved closer to victory with a block by juniors Andy Nelson and Dave Fitz that gave the Crimson a 28-27 lead. After a Bobcat timeout, Harvard gave up the next point but closed out the game, 30-28, on a kill by Nelson and a block by McKiernan...
...really well,” Farrar said. “Our offense was cooking. In the first ten minutes of the game, we scored more goals than the last time we played them in 28 minutes. We were effective that way.”With the win, Hartwick moved closer to securing its sixth straight CWPA Northern Division Championship. The Hawks are the top-ranked team in the CWPA poll.“They are a very, very good team,” Farrar said. “They are not ranked 13th in the country for nothing. They...
...vintage purple-funk: Prince’s wailing guitar takes center stage, a gospel organ provides counterpoint to the melody, and a flesh and blood drummer keeps sick time in the background.“Get On the Boat”, the album’s closer, does “Fury” one better in the funk department. Prince channels the spirit of James Brown and delivers a gritty call-and-response vocal performance over the jazzy stylings of a killer horn section. A number of bravura instrumental solos punctuate the six-minute mini-epic, each endeavoring...
...theory. Every time something goes wrong in politics, he consoles himself by telling me that we are just one step closer to the revolution—an event that, in his mind, entails a drastic but completely nonviolent shift towards a more tolerant and compassionate public policy. I tend to disagree. I’ve never had that much confidence that people will eventually get fed up enough to actually change the status quo.But the recent fight over stricter restrictions on immigration has given me some cause for hope. While the revolution—or anything like it?...