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Yale had a surprisingly rough time this week at a convention fĂȘting...
...time he began work on La Grande Jatte, Seurat was also looking closely at Millet, whose bulky peasants figure behind many of Seurat?s magnificent drawings, and at the velvety etchings of Goya and Rembrandt. Seurat worked in soft, fatty Cont? crayon, dragging it across paper that had a rough, microscopically tufted surface. Minute threads of the paper?s whiteness remain visible beneath the crayon?s black, creating smoky gray and black textures of incredible depth...
...smallest of the country's Big Four banks, in a bidding war that highlights the degree to which government reform and revived economic vibrancy have unleashed a fresh wave of market competition in this traditionally moribund industry. Many observers say the tussle may even be a harbinger of a rough-and-tumble style of capitalism that could spread across Japan's rebounding economy...
...explains FitzGerald. The acting analogy is apt, since the music provides much of Heidi's inner voice. You can hear it in Heidi's Theme, where a delicate xylophone arpeggio rises above the earthier glockenspiel, perhaps symbolizing Worthington's character Joe. But it's not all so harmonious. For Rough Sex, Decoder Ring provide a jarring guitar riff to accompany one of Heidi's teenage tumbles. It lasts barely three minutes. Elsewhere in Somersault, the frisson between image and sound is pure cinema. "Cate's a real lover of music and we're real lovers of film," FitzGerald says...
...sold. Ten years ago, Colonial Williamsburg, the open-air museum in Williamsburg, Va., presented an outdoor re-enactment of a 1773 estate auction that included the sale of slaves. The hope may have been that the performance would help Williamsburg fight off criticism that it tended to sugarcoat the rough realities of colonial history. But the re-enactment was met by a public protest organized by the Virginia coordinator of the N.A.A.C.P., who complained that it turned pain into entertainment...