Word: note
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...McCain's online staff had been let go; his bare-bones website was the technological equivalent of a soapbox-derby car on a busy freeway. The McCain blog has been infrequently updated, many organizational tools were absent, and the social-networking feature, called McCainSpace, was left unfinished, with a note for supporters to "stay tuned." Even today, if you go to McCain's website, you are more likely than not to find a page that just asks for money and broadcasts the campaign's message, with issue papers, press releases and videos...
Velázquez, one of the greatest painters in history, would take note. Born in 1599, he started his career painting bodégons, kitchen scenes, like the meticulously detailed An Old Woman Cooking Eggs. This was the homey territory that Dutch painters worked in all the time but where the high-minded El Greco didn't venture. (You can't imagine any of El Greco's crackling holy men doing anything in a kitchen but frightening the cooks.) Like Caravaggio, Velázquez would also use ordinary people as models for figures from the Bible. When he paints The Immaculate Conception...
...latch. If she opened the door, if she dared to set even one foot across the threshold, the decision would be made, she would do it. She was suddenly aware of the fragrant air, astonishingly heavy and moist for the summer. She heard, as if from a piano, note by melodious note, the birds that nested in the lone apple tree that leaned over the shed; saw as if through a magnifying glass the leaves of grass which were still the pale green of newborn shoots. She inhaled quickly and deeply as she noticed a gardener sleeping beneath a distant...
...special concentration is not a matter of poor departmental organization, but rather an attempt to ensure that all concentrations are well thought out and in keeping with the College’s aim of a liberal arts education. Deborah D. Foster, director of Undergraduate Studies in Special Concentrations, notes that special concentrations are appropriate only for students interested in a more in-depth interdisciplinary study of an area that isn’t addressed in existing concentrations like History and Literature or Social Studies.“We want students to have a liberal arts education, not a pre-professional...
...Detractors of France's "exception culturelle" - and its policy of subsidizing, promoting and protecting artistic and cultural products as a matter of national interest - note that past government efforts to artificially fund markets has done little to halt Frances' declining creativity. But not only do Albanel and her supporters contest the idea that French cultural vibrancy is fading; they also have a nice retort to free-market enthusiasts decrying her plan. Albanel's project is roughly based on the "Own Art" scheme launched in Britain in 2004 by Arts Council England. The program is credited with having created...