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Students whose reading levels are two years below those of their peers are often classified as dyslexic. Yet despite this disorder, dyslexics exhibit average to above average intelligence. Brilliant luminaries such as Albert Einstein, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Thomas Edison, Agatha Christie and Woodrow Wilson are believed to have been dyslexic...
They were very clever. They would have an advertisement from the `50s or they would have Michelangelo's David or they would have a porno shot. Seeing those posters really clicked to me that while this is great and I really love what they're doing, I would like to make this movement more accessible because film is a much more accessible medium. What they were doing was great for the specific streets in San Francisco at that time, but with films you can travel around the world and bring forth the message that would otherwise just be kept...
...Heroes. Michelangelo. Shakespeare. Some courses are so large and famous that they need no numbers or descriptions, just names. For example, the largest class on campus last semester: Professor of Government Michael J. Sandel's Moral Reasoning 22--a.k.a. "Justice...
...Michelangelo's epic Last Judgment, in the Sistine Chapel, emerges vividly from a four-year face-lift...
...controversial restoration of the chapel's 33-panel ceiling, which includes God's finger touching Adam's, was finished in 1989. Though some critics contend the process produced undesirable changes in color, the majority think it revealed the original hues used by Michelangelo in their pristine state. The Judgment, probably the world's most important example of fresco -- a technique that involves applying water-based pigments to a still wet plaster wall -- has not been seen by the public since 1990, when it was hidden behind draped scaffolding. As with the ceiling, its cleaner and brighter look, once revealed...