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...Medical School and one of the article’s authors. “[Early life] might be a critical period that health professionals and researchers should focus on,” said Rifas-Shiman. Although previous studies have found evidence linking rapid weight gain in infancy to a greater risk of obesity later in life, this study analyzed growth rate more precisely, monitoring weight-to-length ratio over the first six months. According to Taveras, the weight-to-length ratio, akin to the body mass index in adults, is a more accurate indicator of body fat than weight alone...
...What happens with the most interesting works of art, I think, is that you start with a sense of deception, of half-knowledge, preferably with the deck stacked against your protagonist, and then in the course of whatever you’re watching or hearing, you gain a greater, deeper understanding of who that person is.”Toback, like his subject, has something of a bad reputation. Associated in Hollywood with drug cults, hustlers, and gangsters, he makes no attempt to hide his own vices. His first feature film was called “The Gambler?...
...creating something new. Now we are honoring that. It’s great to look at it as something that looks back and also forward.”“The Ballets Russes provided one of the great moments when the arts came together to produce things greater than any one of them could provide alone,” Professor Kelly says. “The individual works are treasures, the historical phenomenon is fascinating, and this symposium and exhibition provide a great way to see what art is for, what it can do, and why it matters...
...another opinion, which framed the debate in near-Marxist terms. “If you’re someone who is disempowered, who has less cultural status, then I think appropriation is alright,” he said. “But if you are in a position of greater power, exploiting someone with less cultural status, it isn’t.” Ultimately, the panelists agreed that, at the very least, Fairey’s “Hope” poster has had a significant positive impact on American society. The debate on this frequently overlooked...
...scene. All of the figures surrounding Christ are looking away from him, and the colors are muddy and the brushstrokes rough, as if flipping the finger to his older rival. Moving through the exhibition, each artist seems in turn to outdo his rivals, producing works of ever-greater beauty and power—and yet, at the end, it is Tintoretto who seems, if not the most supremely skilled, the most challenging, inventive, and creative of the triumvirate.Tintoretto’s canvases occasionally verge on the ugly with deeply shadowed figures, violent brushstrokes, garish colors (a glowing turquoise matched...