Word: plaines
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...were to look at Jen Monti's stat line for the weekend, you might find it a bit plain: nine points, 10 assists against eight turnovers and five rebounds in two games...
...this without those protean stem cells? Part of the answer is smart engineering. Using materials such as polymers with pores no wider than a toothbrush bristle, researchers have learned to sculpt scaffolds in shapes into which cells can settle. The other part of the answer is just plain cell biology. Scientists have discovered that they don't have to teach old cells new tricks; given the right framework and the right nutrients, cells will organize themselves into real tissues as the scaffolds dissolve. "I'm a great believer in the cells. They're not just lying there, looking stupidly...
...Elster, Class of 2000, and D. Drew Douglas, Class of 2000, sexually assaulted two Harvard women last year, and the Ad Board has recommended their dismissal. But the unless the full Faculty vote to expel them, the two will theoretically be allowed to return to Harvard. It is plain and simple that these boys do not deserve ever to return to Harvard, and though they probably will not be allowed to, they should be expelled. (Expulsion is absolute; after a Harvard student is expelled, his or her Harvard career is over.) The fact that they have not yet been either...
Until De Hooch goes to Amsterdam, the work is all plain, in surface, substance and gesture. There's scarcely a hint of theatricality in the way his Delft models look. The figures in A Woman Drinking with Two Men, and a Serving Woman, circa 1658, are circumspect and static. True, the man on the left seems to be mimicking a violin player with two clay pipes, but it would be hard to imagine a more decorous drinking party, and the glass of wine the woman raises is more like a chalice than an attribute of Bacchus, let alone Venus. Their...
...Hooch's painting changed after his move to Amsterdam. He was working for a richer and posher clientele--not that they made him rich. The plain stuff of his interiors gives way to more sumptuous surfaces: marble, Turkish carpets and gilded walls of embossed leather, all of which he painted with virtuosity. The people are dressed to the nines. The idea that De Hooch sold out to them, and to their way of life, thus sending his art into decadence, was widespread once. It isn't borne out by the pictures themselves. A strangely moody image from...