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...Academy's school. But Turner would have been a disaster as a portraitist. He could draw as well as the best of them. In watercolor he could produce something like molecular detail, notwithstanding that one of his typical techniques was to soak the entire sheet in water, rub in raw pigment, blot it with rags and sponges and then painstakingly work up finer detail within the misty blooms of color. Yet as he matured, his deepest impulse wasn't to delineate form but to dissolve it. And where was the earl who wanted to be remembered as a blot...
...derives from each of his girlfriends, but also leaves the viewer weirded out by his identically-clad dates. “Me Love,” unfortunately, fails to touch on Kingston’s verses of sorrow and suicide. Rather, his warmth can’t help but rub off everywhere, whether on stage or on his girlfriends. Kingston finds himself buying ice cream and snapping a picture of himself together with one of his many beloveds. Basking in the slowly-fading glow of Kingston’s summer hit “Beautiful Girls...
Koenigs and his friend made a cooking show/comedy sketch, accessible from HRTV.org and Youtube.com, outlining his recipe for viewers at home. The directions: smear armpits with chunky peanut butter, rub jelly through hair, and scrub off with slices of bread. Then put those two slices together for an “avant garde PB&J sandwich,” Koenings’s companion explains. Both chefs ate their creations, and Koenigs had a taste of both...
Climate change geeks with a thing for international conferences - like me - were spoilt for choice this past week. You could rub shoulders with national leaders from over 80 countries - or just their junior advisers, depending on the color of your badge - at the United Nations high-level meeting on climate. You could Amtrak down to the White House and hear President George W. Bush tell the world's major economies that this global warming thing might actually be a problem and that we should maybe consider doing something about it eventually. Or you could catch the Clinton Global Initiative...
...entire history of Soviet literature played out in the Oak Hall, where loyal literary functionaries and dissident writers ate, drank and often fought. It was there that foreign VIPs were brought to rub shoulders with selected members of the intelligentsia. At the height of Gorbachev's perestroika in 1988, U.S. President Ronald Reagan met there with dissident Soviet writers...