Word: length
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Rather than a sustained and incisive presentation of religious influences on Chinese painting, what unfolds is a series of scrolls incredibly rich in calligraphic detail and historical import. All are completely unrolled and elegantly presented in cases that run along the entire length of the gallery. They range from Yan Liben's Thirteen Emperors' Scroll, the only surviving visual record of a series of Chinese emperors, to the scrolls of the famous emperor and artistic patron Huizong, whose devotion to the arts cost him his throne, to the earliest portrait of Confucius. These paintings overwhelm the viewer not only with...
This situation is analogous to Cosmos Ndeti's or Uta Pippig's reaching the finish line of the 26.2 miles Boston Marathon after months of training only to be told that the officials have changed the length of the race while they were running and now they need to run an extra mile...
Harvard finished just over a length shy of Princeton--the top-ranked team in the nation--last Saturday. However, Harvard edged the Tigers in the same race last year...
...woman in Texas, news that did nothing to smooth relations with his (now estranged) wife. Morris consoled himself with a $2.5 million book advance. He remains a much quoted political analyst, one gamely attempting to reach the ear of a President who holds him at arm's length. It's a tricky position...
...length of the search suggests that the position will be filled with someone outside the University...