Word: sharpe
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...provided this century with two of the things it likes best--greater realism and superior fantasies--but also showed how deeply entwined they can be. Circa 1900, ambitious photographers aspired to pictures that resembled paintings. Then came modernism, which taught them to rethink the characteristics of their own medium. Sharp focus, accidental arrangements and the just-the-facts stuff that cameras provide became a new path to the supreme fictions of art. Of the pleasures cameras give us, the transfiguration of plain reality is the most indispensable. It implies that the world is more than it seems--which, after...
...with hats. Her boyish "flapper" creations were in stark contrast to the Belle Epoque millinery that was in vogue at the time, and about which she asked, "How can a brain function under those things?" Something that Chanel can never be accused of is not using her brain. Her sharp mind is apparent in everything she did, from her savvy use of logos to her deep understanding of the power of personality and packaging, even the importance of being copied. And she was always quotable: "Fashion is not simply a matter of clothes. Fashion is in the air, born upon...
...good reason, given the sharp division of opinion on this question, to go through the many layers of approvals needed to make this change, simply to effect the modest alteration of adding a signature to women's diplomas," Lewis wrote in an e-mail message to council President Beth A. Stewart...
...practice which demands a sharp eye to ferret out market inefficiencies, risk arbitrage tested Rubin's "psychological fortitude" and gave him an "appreciation for the power of the markets," Ullman says...
...decision of the National Bar Association (NBA)--the nation's largest organization of black judges and lawyers--to invite Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas to speak at its annual July convention has drawn sharp criticism from a number of the organization's members including A. Leon Higginbotham Jr., public service professor of jurisprudence at the Kennedy School of Government...