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...influence of Okyo's work can be seen in a series of rooms commissioned 80 years later and painted by late-Edo master Gantai in the 1840s. His screens, like Okyo's, each have its own theme; they are filled with dazzling gold reeds, rushes, trees and butterflies. But by this time, figurative depiction had become so sophisticated that the butterflies look real, as if they are ready to fly off the screen...
...slot Miller with his venomous attack in the national spotlight as the keynote speaker says a lot about George W. Bush's campaign strategy. Lowell Klessig Amherst Junction, Wisconsin, U.S. I support Kerry but have trouble with those who are advising him. Karl Rove, Bush's strategist, is a master political tactician, and the Democrats are kidding themselves if they think the Republican campaign team will play fair. Kerry's advisers must remember the attacks on John McCain in 2000 and Max Cleland in 2002, and they should not forget what Lee Atwater did to Michael Dukakis...
Though she has been sightless since the age of 12, Sabriye Tenberken has never lost her vision. She sees the needs of those who share her disability. In the late 1990s, the Bonn native, who was blinded by a congenital degenerative retinal disease, studied for a master's degree in Tibetology in her hometown. But there was no Braille alphabet for the 42 syllable characters of that complex Asian language, so she developed one - in just two weeks. "It was a matter of necessity," she explains. "I had picked Tibet as the country where I later wanted to do development...
...John Cogan Professor of Humanities Stephen J. Greenblatt, Shakespeare is more than a master playwright—he’s a literary genius whose remarkable achievements can only be explained by the vivid narrative of his life and times...
...scientific minds—and all of their attendant eccentricities—piled into Memorial Hall for the “14th first annual” Ig Nobel ceremony, which celebrates scientific projects that “cannot or should not be reproduced,” said master of ceremonies Marc Abrahams, who edits the Cambridge-based Annals of Improbable Research. The 10 achievements honored this year ranged from Karaoke to comb-overs patents to invisible gorilla suits...