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...example, an open tutorial system was proposed to allow each concentrator to choose his own project and pursue it at his own pace. The curriculum review committee also requested that course descriptions be revamped to make them more explicit, and that some advanced theory courses be changed to include sections on painting...
...remained on his feet for 31 minutes, his voice growing stronger as he spoke. He wore no braces. The only support in his "standing box" was a strap across his lower back. He made no explicit reference to running for re-election next year, but he did not have to. He talked about being "thrilled by the prospects lying ahead" and used the line of the Yankee poet Robert Frost about having "promises to keep/ And miles to go before I sleep...
...reject the boost or investigate its justification-but if it does not move, the company will be free to make its increase. That is a pallid version of the system in effect during most of Phase II, when companies with sales of $100 million or more had to get explicit prior approval to make any price increases at all, and had to back their applications with detailed figures to prove that the boosts were forced by higher costs...
...attack immediately. Not Solti. He turns thoughtfully, spreads his feet and shoots slitty glances around to make sure all is ready. Then, with a slashing, totally unexpected paroxysm involving every part of his body, he gives the downbeat. Throughout the performance, Solti's body language is dramatically explicit. The violins are brought in with huge lefthanded scoops to the floor. The trumpets are cued by the riveting spear of an arm and index finger. A starburst of fingers summons the crash of the cymbals. Moments of lyrical romance come with the left hand cradled near the heart, the right...
Drawing is an explicit business, a matter of black and white. The old masters drew to discover a final form, to stabilize reality before painting it. But what if drawing is not about definitions, what if it chooses to study the instabilities of perception? Such is the question hidden in the work of a masterfully gifted Israeli artist named Avigdor Arikha, whose exhibition of ink drawings-seen last year at Marlborough Galleries in Manhattan-is now on show in Fort Worth...