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...life he included his own likeness in his canvases. But in exile, as he meditated more forcefully on his fate, he appears more frequently than ever. In The Raising of Lazarus - a powerful topic for an artist yearning for a papal pardon - he's struck by the same shaft of light that picks out the dead man. In his somber Saint Francis in Meditation, he may even be the saint. If so, it would be a telling use of himself to give authenticity to the idea of the saint's self-examination. But in none of his work did Caravaggio...
...happy to award this to the next lowest bidder tomorrow morning." Of course they resolved their differences. But I did have my problems when I went out to the site for the first time. I went down in a bucket off of a crane to be lowered into the shaft, and the crane driver swung the cage wildly on purpose. But my grandfather said to treat those sorts of things with humor. So I yelled out, "I've been on better rides at the amusement park!" And that's the last time he ever did that...
...years after their husbands’ deaths, Edja, Masha and (judging from the shock that I would even ask) most of their friends eat alone every night. In their separate apartments down the hall and up the elevator shaft from each other and the Florida sands, these people with similar life stories and similar unhappiness spend their lives missing the company of the days of yore...
...coal-mine shaft was called cutting face no. 2, located deep in the mountains of North Korea, near a town called Kaechon, 200 km north of Pyongyang. Coal mining anywhere is dirty, dangerous work, but this was no ordinary coal mine. It was part of a camp for political prisoners in North Korea where "perceived political wrongdoers," as a recent human-rights report put it, are sent without trial or charge for sentences of unspecified lengths...
Although women admittedly received a mere 12.5 percent of tenure offers, there is no evidence of discrimination against them. Thus an effort exclusively to recruit women and shaft other candidates is not justified...