Word: dorothea
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...during the Old Kingdom that Egypt came of age as a civilization. It was also, says Dorothea Arnold, curator in charge of the Met's Egyptian department, the time when art began to flourish. "It was invented and stylized then," she says, "and it stayed that way for 2,000 to 3,000 years. This was a time when the human figure was at the center of art. When people asked, 'Who are we? What is death?' These people came to grips with death by cherishing life, by transforming human figures into stone in order to preserve them forever...
...only issue I had was a Spanish exam where eight TFs came in and started chatting in Espagnol," says exam proctor Dorothea S. Piranian...
...Dorothea Coleman, 90, also of Sun City, trusted, among other scammers, a man from Las Vegas who represented himself as a minister and talked her into giving him $36,000 for an apparently nonexistent children's home. "I was stupid," she says. But then, like many elderly women, she had never learned how to handle money. In her younger days, wives left all financial decisions to their husbands. Her spouse, a lawyer who died in 1988, "would have known better," says Coleman. "He always warned me, 'Somebody will try to get your money.' And they...
...focus more and more on computers, the Internet and the person of Bill Gates. Sure, the issues and the guy are important, but please bring back your old balance. I could have used more coverage of the protests in Serbia instead of, say, the details of Gates' new house. DOROTHEA GIESELMANN Munster, Germany...
...wary of politics. What they wanted was the luxury of a private moment and the refuge of a private space where they could lock out the sinister noise of history. Among photographers, that meant that the subjects of what used to be called concerned photography--the migrant workers of Dorothea Lange, for example, or the G.I.s of Robert Capa--lost some of their claim on the imagination. The icons of the 1950s would be personal and a bit inscrutable, like the quasi-mystical nature studies of Minor White and the abstract close-ups of torn posters by Aaron Siskind...