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...Internet is playing a double role in matchmaking's revival. On the one hand, the ubiquity of online dating--1 in 10 Web surfers uses those sites, which get 40 million hits a month--has eased Americans' hang-ups about paying a third party to set up dates. On the other, Web-dating singles have grown increasingly weary of the attending aggravations--the overly flattering photos, the fibbing bios, the less-than-honorable intentions, the inevitable letdown of that first date...
...both sales and his labor force to half their former levels. He blames China's "manipulated" currency and subsidized exports. Bartlett wants the U.S. government to take measures that will level the playing field. Without that, he fears, he will eventually have to shut his doors. "We hope to hang on until somebody comes to their senses in Washington," he says. "I don't hold out much hope." And even if Washington wants to protect him, it doesn't have much ammunition to use against China...
...Whitney Museum, covers the artist's various phases - figurative neo-expressionism combined with abstract; solemnity combined with whimsy and even leering humor. The most successful of the "plate paintings" on view is a striking 1993 portrait of Olatz, which has the mercurial effect of a Cubist-style mosaic. Opposite hang blood-red abstracts painted on tarps or sailcloth, white Rothko-like spears slashing across blackened surfaces, and delicate, geisha-like figures trailing off into tendrils of action painting. The wall-sized Large Girl with No Eyes, painted in 2001 in a pseudo-Pop Art style, shows a close...
...created by strokes dragged energetically from the wet paint of the gray wrap into the depthless background. Unlike many contemporaries, he never painted himself. Our only clue to El Greco's appearance may lie in The Adoration of the Shepherds (ca. 1612-1614), which he painted to hang above his own tomb. The central figure kneeling before the Christ child is, some scholars believe, an image of the painter. A man with similar features appears in other works, sometimes with the direct gaze typical of self-portraits. El Greco often put his adopted city, Toledo, in the background...
...It’s critical for us to guard because we really labor scoring,” Sullivan said. “We labor with turnovers every game. We labor with scoring every game. If we can guard in games, we can hang around, and tonight was a good example for our team...