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...vast majority of the paintings are traditional scenes of hunted game; three modern works--a Max Beckmann, a Georgia O'Keeffe, and an Axel Kesselbohmer--show skulls. Not one seventeenth- or eighteenth- century painting shows any of the other symbols associated with passing time; after such a lengthy label description of the section, their absence is conspicuous. However, in the "Fruit" section and again in the "Trompe I'Oeil" section, there are perfect examples of decaying fruit (one label doesn't even acknowledge its symbolic value) that would have been far more effective in the "Vanitas" gallery...
...former category merits a close look because of the amazing technical skill with which they were painted. Most notable is "The Slate" of 1890-94 by John Haberle, in which the entire canvas is painted to look like a chalky slate, complete with a wooden frame, and, as the label points out, uses scientific precision and detail to create a canvas that appears messy and smudged...
...resolution calls for grocery stores and restaurants to label foods which have been genetically engineered...
...poll taken in July 1992, the U.S. Department of Agriculture found that 85 percent of Americans felt it was "very important" to label genetically engineered foods...
Incumbents Jonathan P. Feeney '97 and Justin C. Label '97 both said they declined offers because MRUC's leaders required them to agree with all its goals...