Word: halley
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...Prince, who rephotographed portions of existing magazine ads to expose their underlying messages of desire, domination and anxiety. As always, the newer phalanx of artists tended to look back at whoever had come just before and wince. "There was a traditional view that I grew up with," says Peter Halley, who emerged as a theoretician of what got called Neo-Geo. "Artists had a high calling. They should not let things out of their studio that were...
...Halley's paintings were and are brightly colored geometric abstractions. "What I'm doing by today's standards is pretty tame," says Halley, who is head of the graduate program in painting at Yale's school of art. "On the other hand, I'm also associated with ideas about changes in technology, the digitalization of culture, that I find young artists are very interested in." And for all his reservations about the decade's club-crawling, fashion-flaunting, big-paint-splattering beginnings, he has good things to say about the '80s as an arena of ideas...
...assigned (because of changes in the calendar) to Jesus' birth. More recently, the nova theory has received a boost with the discovery of Han-dynasty Chinese and Korean records of blazing stellar bodies at about the same time. Finally, some analysts have suggested that Matthew was so impressed by Halley's comet in A.D. 66, and by the testimony of very old Christians who had seen it in 12 B.C., that he wrote it into the story...
...Professor of Law Janet Halley, who signed the brief, said at the rally Friday that the pre-2002 arrangement, even if permitted by the Solomon Amendment, was morally unjustifiable. She said Harvard’s practice of accommodating the military through the Veterans Association had reduced the school’s nondiscrimination policy to “transcendental nonsense...
According to Halley, the phrase “sexual orientation” usually refers to the gender of one’s sexual partner. “Many transgenders or transexuals stick with their ‘original’ sexual orientation,” she wrote in an e-mail. “And many ‘time’ things in such a way that their most vulnerable transition period is also a time of their not having sexual relations with anyone...