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Moreover, recent Biennials have had to respond somehow to the provocation of a superheated art market. Even if gallery owners and collectors have gotten a little nervous lately, whistling past the twin graveyards of housing and stocks, money remains a force to be reckoned with. Month after month, deluxe aesthetic merchandise--the stainless-steel jewelry sculpture by Jeff Koons, those naughty-nurse paintings by Richard Prince--keeps rolling out of auction houses like so many hood ornaments...
...world’s oldest hereditarymonarchy, and Haruko’s life ischoked with thousands of years’ worthof accrued ceremony: the 15 kilogramsof traditional clothing Haruko wears onher wedding day, the seven-day namingprocess for her first son. The monotonyand constriction of it push Haruko intoa nervous breakdown, forcing her toleave the royal palace to convalesce at herchildhood home.At this point, convention tells us, sheshould recover from her mental anguishand find the strength to carve out a placefor herself, even within the suffocatingenvironment of the court. Whether ornot Empress Michiko actually returnedfrom her convalescence with newfoundresolve...
...study in question, which was published in Nature in 2001, investigated the connection between the olfactory and nervous systems of mice, but is not a part of the work recognized by Buck’s Nobel Prize...
...goal.“They played very good defense, it was a matter of time before we sort of got our legs going,” Stone said. “In the first twenty minutes I thought we played fast and hard, but we played a little nervous.”“I think it’s typical of playoff hockey, to be honest with you, to have close games and hopefully wear teams down and figure out a way to win,” she added.Clarkson got two quality scoring chances in the second period...
...devised a pretty smart argument that while Nader might be responsible for every drop of blood spilled in Iraq, he also helped end global warming. Nader came up with his own bit about how he must also be responsible for sunspots, which made me more than a little nervous about letting the man deliver my material...