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...collages," each one "a conglomerate of many passing ideas." Burckhardt works with enamel on wood-his paintings, all roughly the size of a sheet of notebook paper, are slick, colorful meditations somewhere between Dr. Seuss and Kandinsky. He often allows shapes in the underpainting to flicker through the top layer of images, struggling for more dimensions than his medium allows...
...part of the United States and other developed countries lies with an inability to take the concept of global warming seriously, in combination with an intense desire to protect recent economic successes. As we move farther away in time from the moment when holes in the ozone layer first were noticed, life continues to progress as usual and we wonder what the big fuss was about; without palpable catastrophe, the theory begins to seem far-fetched and totally passe. The once spell-bounding specter of spreading deserts, of global famine, of expensive real estate on the Florida panhandle disappearing beneath...
...Grants are a godsend. Under Bush's plan, the maximum grant would increase from $3,300 to $5,100. Bush's policymakers say that this $5 billion jolt to the funding would make it possible for 800,000 more students each year to enter college. Gore simply imposes another layer of bureaucracy, with a proposed "National Tuition Savings Program" so that the federal government can tell parents to invest their money in special trusts to pay for tuition. This added layer of government influence has no immediate or practical effect upon decreasing the cost of college tuition...
...life should be lived are presented but only one can survive, with Creon unable to bend his laws and Antigone unwilling to compromise her sense of virtue. Any performance of classical Greek tragedy is a difficult endeavor and the Anouilh version of the play adds yet another layer of complication. Yet the production staff of the show made an interesting choice: to stage this Greek tragedy as it would have been staged in ancient Greece-outside, exposed to the elements. Antigone has the potential to resonate with an audience, especially given the choices that emerge between law and personal beliefs...
They feared that the University would push forward with phase two, saddling staffers with another layer in a system that was already slowing them down and frustrating them...