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With few exceptions, nearly every individual work of art in “A Studio of Her Own” is remarkable. Of special note is Anna Vaughn Hyatt’s statue, Young Diana, depicting the goddess balanced delicately upon the backs of three large fish, her bow and arrow pointed towards Zeus. Hyatt’s attention to detail is remarkable, and the fish appear so real that they might jump back into the sea. Also moving is Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller’s Bust of a Woman, a partial cast of her Emancipation that now resides...
...says, "getting the best ingredients and not screwing it up." He spends much of his time developing relationships with micropurveyors--a commercial pilot who grows hearts of palm, a scholar who Fed-Exes her Maine lobsters to him. Then he focuses on the details: squeezing the moisture out of fish skin; steeping a lobster so he can cook it without the shell; straining everything over and over. "You look at a fish and you realize it was alive, and you respect the life of that fish and make sure you get the best out of it," he says...
...global positioning satellite system. And the galley is a paneled dining hall that seats 16 with a magnificent solid-wood table and, behind the stove, a chef from Hanoi. At lunch, he piles plates high with seafood bought fresh from local sampans, serving up four or five courses of fish, squid, prawns and crab, which we washed down with beer. Squeezing ourselves into the kayaks afterward became steadily more of an effort as the trip progressed...
...independence, preceded by a truth and reconciliation process. The real culprits of the crimes against East Timor," he adds, "are the Indonesian government and (army) officers who are safe in Jakarta. While they escape justice, are we going to try our own people, the small fish?" Horta believes the new Parliament will heed Gusmao's advice on amnesty and that national consensus is possible...
...indie, rebellion against traditional gender roles in music and disdain towards the mass marketing of an art form) was deliberately sold as bandwagon rebellion. As Bart Simpson said while the Smashing Pumpkins played in front of him at Lollapalooza, “making teenagers depressed is like shooting fish in a barrel,” and through deliberate and contrived publicity, the UK-banned Never Mind the Bollocks became a No. 1 album, and Nirvana moved so-called “alternative” music into the oxymoronic mainstream—their major-label debut, Nevermind, sold over eight million...