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Skill, once demonstrated, could be elegantly volatilized. Edo taste valued the unfinished, the rough. One of the masters of the pictorial throwaway line was Ogata Kenzan, best known as a potter. He and his more famous brother Ogata Korin--whose paintings mark the apotheosis of lyrical, erudite Edo painting--left an indelible mark on Edo style. Nothing could seem more offhand than Kenzan's scroll The Eight-Fold Bridge, an illustration of a poem with the poem itself written into it--the planks of the bridge brusquely indicated, the calligraphy mingling with the broadly brushed leaves of water iris...
Harvard shot only 30 percent (6 of 20) on the night from behind the arc against the stingy B.U. defense. Sophomore forward Dan Clemente had a particularly rough outing, misfiring on all seven of his attempts from downtown. He scored just five points on 2-of-12 shooting...
Rosenbaum said the Book Review receives galley proofs, or "rough drafts," of some books, but the majority arrive as final copies and appear in stores one to two months after their release to reviewers...
Commercially, this worked out beautifully for him. Most people prefer their entertainments to embrace the comfortably cute rather than the disturbingly acute--especially when they're bringing the kids. Movie critics started ignoring him, and social critics began hectoring him, because his work ground off the rough, emotionally instructive edges of the folk- and fairy-tale tradition on which it largely drew, robbing it of "the pulse of life under the skin of events," as one critic...
...have had a rough start," captain Bert Bangayan said. "But we are improving with each match, and our confidence is building...