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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...atelier of Charles Gleyre in Paris in 1862 formed friendships between Impressionist greats including Claude Monet, Frédéric Bazille, Auguste Renoir and Alfred Sisley. Impressionist Still Life displays Bazille’s and Sisley’s versions of “The Heron,” which they painted side by side in 1867. Several Bazille and Renoir paintings were created while the two were sharing a studio...

Author: By Isabelle B. Bolton, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: First Impressions | 3/8/2002 | See Source »

...right, that first paragraph was one big lie. But it's already a journalistic tradition to make Charlize Theron (the last name rhymes with heron) sound sexy, sassy and adventurous. Ever since her breakthrough role as Helga, the Teutonic man killer in the 1996 shoot-'em-up flick 2 Days in the Valley, magazines and newspapers have delighted in telling her story: how she modeled and danced her way off a farm in South Africa, how a bad knee ended her ballet career, how she was discovered by a Hollywood talent manager in a bank. Despite a large body...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Glamour Guts And Glory | 10/30/2000 | See Source »

...clear, blue-golden - such a sweet, frictionless light that from a hilltop I see the Catskills across the Hudson, miles to the west. In a wetland by the road, a great blue heron prospects for frogs, standing poised in the early evening clarity, utterly still... then strikes with a lightning flash of beak. At my approach, the heron rouses itself in a cumbersome fluster, and rises in the air and flaps off in prehistoric, slow-motion grace, topping the red pines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Damn Dumb Bad Luck That Killed JFK Jr. | 7/7/2000 | See Source »

Five seconds into the power play, B.U. senior winger Chris Heron redirected a shot from the point past Prestifilippo to pocket his 12th goal of the season...

Author: By Timothy Jackson, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: M. Hockey Falls in Beanpot Opener | 2/8/2000 | See Source »

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