Word: delft
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...success at the Metropolitan Museum in New York and transfers to London's National Gallery this summer - is based on an enigma. The master of precision, mood and detail, Vermeer nevertheless avoided all that is discordant and jarring - what Anthony Bailey, in his engrossing new book 'A View of Delft' (Chatto & Windus; 224 pages), terms "the messiness of life...
...Christmas lights. It took the 30 residents of Tech House, a dorm for nerdy types, more than five months of planning, programming, hammering, soldering and debugging to put it all together. Even so, it's not the largest Tetris game of all time. Back in 1995, students at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands pulled the same stunt with a 15-story building...
...dealer and tavern operator are not pushed further than the thready historical record. Greit, on the other hand, is a full literary creation with the candid radiance of the Vermeer canvas. Through her eyes, we also get a close, bottom-up perspective on life in the city of Delft at a time when Holland was a leading maritime nation...