Word: maya
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...influence on modern art is well documented. Less so is the effect of ancient American design on 19th and 20th century painters, sculptors and architects. Braun traces the aesthetic roots of artists such as sculptor Henry Moore, painter Paul Klee and architect Frank Lloyd Wright back to the Maya, Aztec and pre-Columbian civilizations of Peru...
...buffalo, then videotaped art-gallery patrons fighting to buy the pieces before they were sold out. Korean-American Nam June Paik, whose influential multimedia artworks incorporate TVs and computers, says he was talking about the information superhighway in his own work long before it became a catchword. And architect Maya Ying Lin, the daughter of Chinese immigrants, designed the black wall of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, a stark monument that compels visitors not to revel in the glory of war, but to reflect on its sorrows...
...precisely because he has been unable to inspire Americans in the way that JFK did. He has invoked the Kennedy legacy through policy proposals (the National Service Act--a domestic Peace Corps), lofty ambiguities (the New Covenant--a Southern Baptist's New Frontier), and a series of staged events (Maya Angelo's inaugural poem a la Robert Frost, a Rose Garden reception for Boys' Nation 30 years--to the day--after Clinton's encounter with Kennedy...
Symonds declined to disclose his new salary, but said, "having the full support of Dean Jewett, Maya and other important people of the University makes the whole position much more palatable above and beyond financial issues...
...addition to general financial incompetence and mismanagement, the Council has generated a plethora of scandals. Remember Maya Prabhu who rigged an election last year? And already this year the Council has experienced a scandal of sorts as the election for the Vice-Presidency has fallen into dispute. After expressly voting to suspend the by-laws in order to include absentee ballots in the election, these ballots were arbitrarily nullified in the run-off election. And these ballots made the difference in the final tally. Weeks after the issue was raised by a vote teller, the Council finally voted--they voted...