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...produce a very different effect. Nolde's prints of a "Young Danish Woman" (1913) appear aged, as the Shroud of Turin. Like most of the works in the dazzling show Emile Nolde: The Painter's Prints and its satisfying counterpart Nolde Watercolors in America, the woman is a delicate relic rather than amass-market commodity. By changing his colors Nolde creates different women and reveals their different personalities...
...rules have caused years of squabbling between the studios (which maintain that the networks, as gatekeepers of the airwaves, should not be allowed to own shows) and the networks (which view the rules as an outmoded relic of the days when the networks were the only game in town). The FCC has finally come down on the networks' side. "Broadcast television is doing great against all its competitors," says FCC chairman Reed Hundt. "((The agency)) wants to make sure they have the opportunity to exercise all of their competitive energies...
...much has changed in the last 62 years. In many respects Memorial Church has become a relic of a time long part, a time when the military was treated with deference and respect by the administration of Harvard University...
First of all, the only things getting "severely damaged" by computational complexity are students in Computer Science 121. The last machine I know of that could possibly be physically damaged as a result of user input was an old version of the Commodore PET, a late-1970s relic...
Secretary of State Warren Christopher, in Morocco for a first-ever economic summit between Israel and Arab states, said the Arab League may lift the 43-year-oldeconomic boycott of Israelnext spring. "There is growing recognition" that the boycott is "really a relic of the past and ought to be consigned to the history books," Christopher said. Saudi Arabia and five Persian Gulf emirates led the way in September by deciding to stop discriminating against companies that do business with Israel...