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...French placement exam. By the third question it was clear that I had no clue. Disregarding the proctors' admonishment not to guess, I completed the test in a total of 10 minutes--filling in the circles carefully so I was sure that my answers didn't make a pattern...
Luckily, Harvard has avoided falling into that dull pattern with its athletic programs...
...course, Hepburn decides to tend the fire in the second-floor drawing room of her Manhattan town house, for which she says (later, when she is speaking) she was offered $2 million. I look around at her watercolors, the antique duck decoy, some African artifacts, and memorize the pattern in the Oriental rug while she slowly removes the screen from the fireplace, chucks in a couple of corn husks, stokes the embers a bit here and there, and shoves the wood around...
...reservations traffic is up more than 30% in many places, all because of the airfares." But on the other hand, the airfare sale has created a huge demand for unprofitable, cheapskate travel. And chances are good that more fare wars are coming. Travel companies fear the auto industry pattern, in which consumers refuse to buy at anything but desperation prices. The U.S. hotel industry is severely overbuilt. Nearly 2 out of every 3 full-service hostelries have been losing money for the past two years. And while all the major chains are competing to offer the best summer bargains...
...doubt one's preference for Guercino's drawings over his paintings is partly caused by the modern liking for the immediate over the highly finished. Guercino liked the flicker of consciousness to show. In a famous passage, Leonardo da Vinci advised the painter to take inspiration from random pattern, like the mottled stains on an old wall; Guercino seems to have believed this too. One of the drawings in the show, Three Bathers Surprised by a Monster, starts with some random splatters of ink on the blank page; briskly and humorously, with a few minimal strokes, one of these blot...