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...Sotos do not reproduce; on the page, they look (and are) rather inert. A work like Green, Red, Blue Writing, 1978, becomes flat in reproduction. On the wall it's a different matter: the painted surface and the wires in front of it vibrate in the most delicate and unpredictable way; their movement is at one with their color; and the result is a real pictorial richness beyond any of the gimmickry that Op Art, Kinetic Art and their hybrids were accused of back...
...ended some 10 km back and 1,300 m below. A bank of wild marijuana was on our left, and a series of terraces on our right led down to a sheer 500-m drop into a river gorge. A priest had just decapitated a goat on the flat roof of a house. He lifted the animal's head to the sun, slowly turning so that all could see. Then his assistants cut off its hooves and placed one each at the four corners of the building. None of the villagers was quite sure what the sacrifice was for. Some...
...were possessing the ball very well,” Mejias said. “We flat-out outplayed them...
Harvard dominated for the next 20 minutes with crisp passing through the midfield and some savvy through balls past the flat Colorado College defense. Although they continued to barrage the Tiger goal with shots, the Crimson failed to capitalize on numerous scoring opportunities. Midway through the first half the momentum switched drastically when the Tigers inserted sophomore striker Jessica Reyes. Reyes provided the Tigers with the spark they needed as her creative play up front drew the focus of the Crimson defenders. With Reyes threatening the Crimson backline, the Tigers were able to develop cohesion between the midfielders and forwards...
Sharon Creech has long been exquisitely attuned to the comings and goings of the junior set. But when she returned to the U.S. in 1998, after 18 years in Europe, the children's author was caught flat-footed. The life of the American child, she discovered, had lurched into a higher gear during her absence. "There were all these frazzled parents who spent their lives in car pools, getting their kids to ballet lessons and gymnastics," recalls Creech. "And I was thinking, Goodness, don't the kids ever get time just to climb a tree or lie in the grass...