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From 5 ft. away one sees how the chin of a woman is like a crag or how the white eyeballs of the old man on the left of the Jacob-Joseph lunette bulge like those of a bodhisattva in a "mad" Zen scroll; and how this is reinforced by colors nobody had seen since the end of the 16th century. They had begun to disappear almost from the moment Michelangelo began laying them on the wet plaster...
...details of Pre-Raphaelite landscape, ostensibly the fruit of candid observation, take on such a hortatory, didactic air. One knows, looking at Millais's portrait of Ruskin in his sober frock coat on the rocky verge of a Scots cascade, that every wrinkle of the gray gneissic crag he stands on is meant to speak of the geological span of the creation and to imply a sense of time at the opposite extreme to the rapid movement of the water, so that the life of man is presented as a kind of middle term between the geologically permanent...
Acting President G. Armour Crag also has publicly favored banning the organizations, reported the Amherst Student, the campus newspaper...
...Peter Chiarelli (Ken Code, Rob Wheater) 16.53. V. Crag Staff (Henry Owen) 2:32, V. Den Crowley (Mark Litton, Norris Jordan) 4:00 H. Wheeler (Chiarelli, Tim Smith) 14:08 V. Matt Winnicki (Kevin Foster, Tony Messina) 15:2: H. Peter Follows (Jay North, Brad Kwong) 10:17 H. Wheeler (funasated...
Nobody objected in 1976, when the new owner of the At lanta Braves, a baseball team above which mediocrity loomed like a mountain crag, climbed aboard an ostrich before one game and galloped around the infield. It couldn't have hurt and it might have helped; if the ostrich could not actually execute the double play, neither could the Braves, and it was always possible that the bird would swallow the ball...