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...question is whether the sun will continue to shine on Viacom. The company's stock fell 3 5/8 on the day after Biondi's ouster, apparently reflecting Wall Street skepticism about Redstone's ability to run Viacom at his age. (The stock recouped a quarter of that loss the next day, closing the week at 37 7/8.) Redstone's response to the gerontology issue: "If Bob Dole thinks he can run the country at age 72," he told a company director, "then I can run Viacom...
Love for her mentors and compatriots has in no way diminished Penningroth's individual performance, however. Her athletic versatility has allowed her to shine at Harvard in the pentathalon and in various throwing events--roles that have increased in importance this year due to the team's relative lack of accomplished throwers...
...Grancio's night to shine. A career high 15-point performance, combined with his suffocating defensive job on Foyle propelled the Crimson (8-5) to a 63-54 home...
...unsurpassed painter of light. He used the finest-ground colors, and he knew everything about glazing and underpainting. Those ultramarine blues, whites and lead-tin yellows make each image an epitome of a luminous world, a place not merely revealed by light but constructed by it. Even his darks shine. The late 17th century in Holland was an age of the eye: optics was a ruling scientific interest, and the telescope and microscope were opening tracts of nature that up till then had been below or beyond normal sight. As an aid to painting his View of Delft, Vermeer probably...
Brancusi gave bronze a new dimension by bringing it to a mirror shine, as in the Birds or the golden curves and lobes of Princess X, the sculpture whose supposedly phallic qualities caused such a foofaraw in Paris in 1920. (It would always infuriate Brancusi that Princess X was interpreted as a penis and testicles rather than a woman's head, neck and breasts, but of course the sculpture is richer for its double meaning.) Because his work was deeply influenced by classical Indian and Khmer sculpture, it may be that the Eastern practice of gilding the effigy...