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Nevertheless, this show is a real feat of scholarship, and nobody can come out of it without some sharply revised opinions on both the origins of modern art and the nature of 19th century French painting as a whole. Afterward, however, one should go and look at some Monets -to rinse the eyes. -By Robert Hughes
...feat of almost cliched poetic justice, Fisk smashed Bob Stanley a pitch over the great green wall in left for a three-run homer in the top of the eighth. Fisk, many say, did not wish to leave the Red Sox. But business is business, and Fisk's hit is the game-winner, as the Red Sox lose...
...beat it, but not by much." Gaines says of his feat. "I really wanted to go a little faster...
What mesmerizes one, at first, is the technique. Most of the sheets are very small, and the detail in some of them is carried out at an almost microscopic level-a difficult enough feat with "hard" tools like pen or silverpoint, but an impossible one (or so one would suppose) with red crayon. One of the minor technical mysteries surrounding Leonardo's work was how he made his chalk hard enough to hold a needle point when sharpened. The steadiness of his hand was almost inhuman-helped, no doubt, by the diet of fruit and water he was always...
...told politely not to come in. He pushed against the door trying to force his way in but it wouldn't budge. And so always resourceful he leapt up grabbed ahold of a pipe running above the door swung his feet back and kicked the door in--a feat for which he was later fined...