Word: grecos
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...never lost the ability to win people over. "Before we launched, I just asked all my friends to write," says Huffington. "And then they get such a reaction that they get hooked and start writing a lot." Her special brand of Greco-American wrangling lured so many boldface names that the merely interesting wanted to write for her too. The Huffington Post now has 3,000 bloggers, all - media moguls take note! - unpaid. (Read TIME's 1995 story on Huffington, "A Woman on the Verge...
...Like most other major art museums, Madrid's Prado maintains an online gallery of its most important works. Now, thanks to a new Google project unveiled on Jan. 13, 14 of those masterpieces, including Velázquez's Las Meninas, El Greco's Nobleman with Hand on His Chest, Durer's Self-Portrait and Fra Angelico's Annunciation, have been reproduced in a resolution so fine - 14,000 megapixels - that not only individual brushstrokes but even the seams in the canvas and cracks in the varnish are visible. (Read a TIME story on the Prado...
...Prince Andrei in War and Peace, where he costarred with the fourth of his five wives, Audrey Hepburn. Before movies he went to Princeton, edited a newspaper, wrote a children's book, was a radio disc jockey and danced on Broadway. Ferrer's signature movie role was in El Greco (1966), for which his long features and noble bearing admirably suited...
...some believe they are human--the fleet fell into the kind of paranoia that, post-9/11, saw a sleeper-cell agent on every commuter flight. It also dramatized the danger of religious extremism: the Cylons are monotheists who see their human creators (who worship a version of the Greco-Roman pantheon) as heathens...
...it’s a Delphic. They’re all Delphics.” To always have a relevant conversation topic, bring along a talisman related to the club’s storied past. Grave robbing is encouraged. When conversation fails, take the initiative to start a Greco-Roman wrestling tournament. But bring your own oil, (Bilotti found that out the hard way). On the other hand, you could try a pie-eating contest. Only bring enough pies for yourself, so that the focus can be all on you. Next comes the date event (and if you play your...