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...That casting suggestion by NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams, responding to a playful question from TIME's Managing Editor Jim Kelly, reflected the dominant motif of Monday's Person of the Year luncheon at TIME's midtown headquarters. The consensus among the panelists assembled to nominate candidates for this year's award was that 2005 was dominated by news events authored by nature, rather than by humans, making it difficult to find individual newsmakers to fit the preferred terms of the award...
...sexy,” while she describes their style as “chic, minimalist, and cosmopolitan.” But, she added, “our inspiration has always been sex.” The entry hallway is a sometime-catwalk and an homage to sex and circle motifs. “We travel a lot together,” Matsui says of the pictures of the two, partially nude, on a beach in Hawaii. On the oppposing wall hang blown-up “drunken” snapshots, lit by the dim glow of a red fabric chandelier...
...confidently initiated the concert with Sergei Prokofiev’s “Suggestion Diabolique,” a piece more deserving of the title “Overstatement Diabolique.” Beginning with a low bass rumble, it quickly erupted into fiery, insistent repetitions of the titular motif. Prokofiev reemerged later on the program with Nora I. Bartosik’s ’08 spirited performance of his “Toccata,” opus 11. Unfortunately, the mediocrity of the piano itself detracted from all the performances—and Bartosik?...
Michel Kimmelman is not thekind of art critic who spends all his time in museums. He's the kind who finds himself trudging up the side of Mont Ste.-Victoire, the peak in Provence that was Paul Czanne's perennial motif. Or getting lost in the darkness of the Nevada desert while pondering Michael Heizer's massive earthworks. Or setting out to visit the world's largest collection of light bulbs, only to detour to a museum of hunting decoys, musing all the while on the history of connoisseurship and the evolving notion of the marvelous...
...look at a scene without breaking it down and resolving it as structure, and some of his paintings of the Adirondack woods, with their complicated shuttle of vertical trunks against a fluid background of deep autumnal shade, are demonstration pieces of sinewy design. He was able to isolate a motif in action, as though the watercolor were a pseudo photograph. This sometimes looks false, but it was exactly the kind of falsity that appealed to popular taste, and Homer's watercolors of leaping trout and thrashing bass, the Big Fish dominating the foreground, are a curious conjunction of the merely...