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...Fauvism, Matisse moved to distill and stabilize his art by conjuring up a stripped-bare world of preclassical antiquity, a place that was one part arcadia, one part Land That Time Forgot. In enigmatic pictures like Bathers with a Turtle, from 1908, bluntly rendered figures were disposed among wide, flat bands of nearly abstract blue and green that signified - just barely - land...
...game winning streak and heading on its biggest road trip of the season, the Harvard men’s volleyball team had set itself up to make a run at a division title. But as the team went for the kill against two key divisional opponents, it came out flat...
Patrons can dine on New England favorites and tavern staples at the new restaurant, ranging from a $10 griddled English muffin burger to a $28 16-ounce flat iron steak...
...After Lopez-Lizana reported that the uranium was accounted for, the NNSA team had to shift it through a crisis zone to a port on high alert for tsunamis. And their cargo was unstable. HEU must be stored and shipped in certain geometrical configurations - long, flat sheets, for instance - so that it does not spontaneously start a nuclear chain reaction, spewing out heat and radioactive by-products. When it has been used in a nuclear reactor, as some of the Chilean HEU had been, it becomes radioactive. Twelve hours before the earthquake, the NNSA engineers had overseen the fitting...
...large axe. When he expresses his surprise, violins screech forebodingly, and Marie answers, “You never know when you may need an axe!” Though Leo’s performance is genuinely creepy and amusing, her delivery could not prevent this hackneyed line from falling flat...