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...simply a rehash of the antiquity venerated by neoclassicists a century before. Provincial antiquity seemed less mined out and more alive than mainstream classicism. Thus in Italy -- Massimo Campigli's painting, for instance, or Marino Marini's sculpture -- the % emphasis shifted from Roman marbles and Greek urns to the rougher, more vital- looking frescoes and terra-cottas of the Etruscans. The idea was to recapture a sense of antiquity that connoted a spirit of place, an Arcadian flavor, more Hesiodic than Augustan...
...Crimson fell behind the first-place Elis by a little over a length at the 700-meter mark and found that the water was becoming rougher closer to the Mass. Ave. Bridge. That meant that catching the Elis in the choppy Charles would be a formidable task...
...UMass usually doesn't have a great record, but they're always tough. They're rougher than we are," senior Julie Clifford said. "But this is the last season that they're offering lacrosse, so they might not have gotten a lot of good younger players. They weren't as good...
...methodical Webb was even rougher on North, who was called by the prosecution but proved so antagonistic that Judge Harold Greene declared him a "hostile witness." Webb got North not only to admit to the jury that he had lied to Congress, but also that he had done so right after Poindexter had told him to "take care" of legislators' questions about the NSC's illegal help to the contras. On his return from the meeting, North got an electronic note from Poindexter saying "Well done...
...Captain Nicole Rival and Erika Elmuts had a rougher go of it at third doubles. After losing 7-5 in the first set to Diane McKeon and Tracy Zawacki, the Demon Deacon duo capitalized on the Crimson pair's poor communication and unforced errors to coast in the second stanza...