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...from Europe. His paintings of children sometimes reach for a rough kind of classical energy. The frieze-line of kids running parallel to the picture plane in Snap the Whip, 1872, brings to mind the dancing putti on Donatello's Cantoria in Florence. He had a knack for inserting distant echoes of the classical into the forms of common life, and doing it so subtly that you're scarcely aware of them at first. Homer went to London in 1881 and then settled in the village of Cullercoats on the coast, near Newcastle. He painted the fisherfolk: the men, massive...
...star Douglas Fairbanks was the man who put the movies in motion. He climbed trees, rain spouts, a snake charmer's rope, a church facade. (Take the stairs? What's the fun in that?) And then he would leap: from roofs or high windows; from a rock onto a distant tree; from a rampart onto a sheer castle wall 15 ft. away. Doug was a whiz with a rapier, a whip, a bola. He could somersault off a horse, trampoline from one speeding car to another. He was a fellow you literally could not keep down--a movie vision...
...folk-pop sound isn't a watering down of rock but a maturation of the form, connecting pop to its past and giving it a future among adults. Seal, born in London to Nigerian parents, admits that he began singing so his "distant" father would notice him. With his Unplugged show, Seal should win the ear of many more adults. --C.J.F...
Song applies this same depth of scrutiny when she thinks about the more distant future...
Forbes believes that the University will not look back on its decision with fond memories. "In the not-so-distant future, a lot of people, alumni and administrators are going to look back at this whole episode with great regret and wonder how it could have happened...