Word: painting
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...Enter the main door and it appears that you are in any slightly threadbare public school office - with linoleum floors and faded paint on the walls. Upstairs you find classrooms and more offices used to administer a 500-student tutoring program. Every evening and on Saturdays students from 4th grade to 6th grade drawn from underprivileged neighborhoods all over the city stream into the classrooms, where they are taught (by both Opus Dei and non Opus Dei teachers) math, reading and science. The tutoring program was started by Opus Dei and is run by a nonprofit foundation and separate board...
...It’s an extraordinary manifestation of how individuals under extreme conditions find a means to express their desire to create.” Stopforth reaches out and touches the surface of the piece, and encourages his audience to do so as well. He explains that the paint he used in this work is made from curdled milk, which serves to reference both the importance of cattle in African culture and the texture of the South African landscape. “Like the piece, that landscape is gritty, yet beautiful.” Guiding his audience through the space...
...Would it have been better if Studi Cattolici had not run the cartoon in the first place? For that matter, would it be better if on May 19 we were to discover that director Ron Howard had decided not to paint the grotesque portrait of Opus (which has its weirdnesses, but probably not including assassination) that Dan Brown did in his novel...
...victim, or a former perpetrator,” Greenfield said. One male audience member pointed out that the discussion of rape can often feel like an accusation against all men. “There are aspects of an anti-rape or anti-violence movement that tends to paint all men in a negative light,” he said. After the event, audience member and BMF President Tracy “Ty” Moore II ’06, said that he thought the event was “phenomenal” because it brought both genders together...
...populist record while running Mexico's gargantuan capital was largely positive. And opponents' attempts to paint him as a Mexican Hugo Ch?vez, the radically leftist and stridently anti-U.S. President of Venezuela, have gained little traction. Part of that is because L?pez takes pains to pair his social welfare ambitions with an investment-friendly business sense that Wall Street, for example, has found appealing in other modern Latin leftists like Brazilian President Luiz In?cio Lula da Silva...