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...passing melancholy that settles on a face, the layering of vapor and light in the sky, the sheen of armor. In this sense of lavishness he was, of course, very much Titian's heir, and it is wonderful to see how much pictorial interest he could discover in inert substances -- particularly the brocades and velvets worn by his sitters -- in the course of translating them into patches and trails of pigment on canvas. He endowed the gold damascened parade armor of Emmanuel Philiberto of Savoy with a density of inspection that makes you feel you could lift...
...grown sick of the question were, if nothing else, relieved when it was apparently laid to rest two weeks ago, as Laura's father (animated by the evil spirit known as Bob) stepped forward and took the rap. Is there life after Laura for Peaks freaks? This season's inert, slowly paced premiere (directed with an uncharacteristic lack of flair by creator David Lynch) almost sank the ship before it left port. But things have picked up since then. Among the high points: Lynch himself in a hilarious cameo as Agent Cooper's half-deaf boss; Nadine...
...trauma rooms were full for several hours. One doctor, soaked with sweat, massaged the hearts of two patients and later almost climbed onto the chest of a third in an attempt to restart his heartbeat. In the parking area outside, a car pulled up, a door opened and an inert body was dropped off. As the car drove away, nurses hurriedly wheeled the abandoned person inside, where he was treated. Staff members, says Nacke, are "stretched to the limit 24 hours...
...Before Conant came, there was no tenure pressure, so people could be tutors indefinitely," says David Riesman '31, who has studied the development of education at Harvard. "Conant saw this as too cozy, too inert...
...power of deep France. But mainly because, in their very simplicity, they were a superb matrix for the changing effects of light and color. Sometimes Monet's grainstacks glow like furnaces, their shadow lines breaking into excited flurries of crimson and blue; sometimes they are dirty brown, between the inert pewter sky of winter and the white crust of snow...