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Jordan L. Hylden ’06 gave dramatic rendering of an excerpt from Donne, which he said the poet composed when he thought he was on his deathbed...
...Cindy Sherman). Some pose with palettes, others focus on the essence of their art: Henry Moore sketched his strong sculptor's hands. And James Montgomery Flagg used his own face for the famous World War I "I Want You" poster of Uncle Sam. The exhibit is only a small excerpt from a massive new book, Me I, by Oneself by curator Pascal Bonafoux and editor-publisher Diane de Selliers, due out this month. While affinities are not readily apparent between the 19th century master draftsman Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres and the feisty 20th century rebel Pablo Picasso, the two artists...
...been referred to as the British predecessors of Nicky and Paris Hilton with their ‘famous for being famous’ personae and the way they Jimmy Chooed their way through Manhattan’s cliquish fashion doors. Sykes is a contributing editor at Vogue, and an excerpt from Bergdorf Blondes, which is rumored to be loosely autobiographical, appears as a cover story in the March issue...
...month or so ago, when John Kerry was dead, the Atlantic Monthly ran a stunning excerpt from historian Douglas Brinkley's book about Kerry's military service in Vietnam--stunning not so much for the events depicted but for the excerpts from Kerry's letters and diaries, which were as moving, candid and powerful as the best Vietnam War writing. Skeptics will say that Kerry, who seems to have had an exaggerated sense of destiny since the sandbox, was writing for posterity even then. Perhaps, but the words reveal a young lieutenant of uncommon grace and intelligence...
...selecting an e-mail address from an individual’s message history or address book. It then sends an e-mail to that address and attaches itself to the message, according to Kevin S. Davis ’98, coordinator of residential computing. The virus may also excerpt fragments from documents, including personal correspondence, found on the infected machine and place them in the body of the e-mail...