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...even the Hampstead series is freaked by the specter of white eccentricity. Day's milieu was like a gentle giant, fumbling to grasp exotic cultures, but instead squashing them under its thumb. He never antagonizes his many black, Algerian and working-class subjects, but he frequently objectifies them, making them into statues. Although his white nudes are more marmorial by virtue of their whiteness, they are always dignified by their reference to a classical subject, usually a god. On the other hand, the black nudes of Day's early career, the disadvantaged white youths of his later years and even...
...WYCLEF JEAN, THE ECLEFTIC: 2 SIDES II A BOOK: While other hip-hoppers just lay tracks, Wyclef writes songs. No topic, from romance to the Amadou Diallo killing, is beyond his range, and no musical style, from reggae to country, is beyond his grasp. Political, comical, unpredictable - Wyclef is the most inventive male performer...
Four years after her arrival in Cambridge, Lopes divorced her husband and found herself a single parent in charge of four school-age children. She had to find work, navigating her way through the system without any grasp of the language...
...words have Latin roots.) Latin is an almost purely phonetic language. There are no silent letters, and each letter represents a single sound. That makes it useful in teaching reading. And once kids master the grammatical structure of Latin - which is simple, logical and consistent - they will more easily grasp the many grammatical exceptions in English...
...nation's lawyers, most of whom seem to be stocking up on SPF 15 and subletting condos down in Florida. But what about the rest of us? The presidential morass has reached a point where it's not only trying our patience but also testing our capacity to grasp just what's going on. So with that in mind, TIME.com has produced this handy primer, keeping pace with the legal proceedings in the Sunshine State and beyond...