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...Real translates into a high degree of abstraction in the physical details of his sculpture -- smooth limbs with no warts, wrinkles or blemishes, and elaborate transitions that lead your eye around the figure or the group. The garland of six linked arms in The Three Graces, the largest carving lent by the Hermitage, has just this rhythmical effect, and in its sense of continuous movement one sees why Canova, in his prime, was credited with inventing a new kind of beauty, Greek- based but original...
...have been rounded up and placed in shelters, homeless migrants have been sent packing, and law enforcement has been beefed up. Officials have also started some ambitious environmental projects, chief among them the cleanup of Guanabara Bay. The project will cost $667 million, $450 million of it to be lent by the Inter-American Development Bank; it would be the largest environmental loan the bank has ever made. The plan includes the construction of six sewage-treatment plants and two solid-waste recycling plants and the reforestation of the eroding banks of the rivers that feed into...
...although some publications dubbed his proposals "common sense idealism" and contended that his plans "won't happen in our lifetime," most lent support to his efforts and hailed his reform recommendations as long-overdue...
...this, it is only for reluctance to provide advice to his children when they ask for it -- a habit that exasperates them to this day. Otherwise, Neil and Jeb were merely following the example of their father who, during his now romanticized "wildcatting" years in West Texas, lent a well-known name to unknown men with big ideas and bigger money. None of this is particularly relevant to Bush's conduct as President or to the 1992 campaign, since voters are unlikely to visit the sins of the sons upon the father...
...think that he's really working extraordinarily hard to do an excel- lent job and I think that he is reallycommitted to the kinds of ideas and ideals that alot of people over there share," Rudenstine said...