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...That could describe the motivations of a loose collection of rising Japanese artists who are as well schooled in their country's artistic traditions as they are eager to remake them. Tokyo's Museum of Contemporary Art identified the trend with its 2006 exhibition No Border: From Nihonga to Nihonga, which showcased talents like Matsui and Kumi Machida, whose idiosyncratic ink portraits of macabre toylike figures are the product of supreme painterly skill. You could call these painters "neo-nihonga," a term popularized by the album-cover designer turned fine artist Hisashi Tenmyouya, whose brilliantly colored acrylic paintings tweak symbols...
Thank you for shedding light on war hero Kennedy's real feelings about war. "All war is stupid," he once wrote, and as your article revealed, he went about trying to outwit some hawks, who were always eager to wield force to resolve difficult issues of their time. I think that Kennedy would have been nauseated by the opening salvo of the Iraq war, the "shock and awe" that was such a vulgar, inhumane display of power...
...After a string of jobs at local hospitals - most recently at the University Hospital of North Staffordshire - Asha was making plans ahead of a visit to his family back home. Eager to pick up presents for his six brothers and two sisters before his July 12 British Airways flight, he telephoned his parents to check on the family's clothing sizes...
...clear that the Faculty is eager to move forward on the important initiatives already underway," Smith wrote. "I am excited to get started...
...would like to thank all of you for the warm reception and many messages of good wishes sent these past two weeks. Though this short time has given me an opportunity to speak directly with only a few of you, it is clear that the Faculty is eager to move forward on the important initiatives already underway, such as the development of the new undergraduate program in general education and implementation of the recommendations of the Task Force on Teaching and Career Development, to name just...