Word: sides
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...popular opinion." But that's overly apologetic. Online polls -- all online polls -- are unscientific in that they're not random samples of the population. Instead they self-serve: They measure how many people cared enough about the issue to take the time to find the poll and pick a side, and they're dead-on scientific about that... until robots attack. "The more popular the poll, the more trouble we have defending it from hackers," says Time Inc. New Media applications developer Anthony Martino...
...with her color experimentations. This rather large painting employs one of Cassatt's most typical subjects: a young child engaged in a natural activity--in this case, lounging informally on a comfortable blue chair. While the girl is clearly the subject of the painting, Cassatt forces her to the side, filling the canvas with four ponderous blue sofa-chairs. The outrageous multicolored upholstery patterns, painted in thick, indelicate slashes, dominate the surface of the painting and seem disconnected from the fabric of the sofas, almost as if floating above the chairs themselves. When it first appeared, this painting caused...
...personality and plausability. He sits and bitches through scenes, denying the younger generation that wants to come into its own while he guiltily broods on hisown climb to success. Master builder Solness' wife, played by Sharon Scruggs, successfully brings his overwhelming, depressing perspective into relief, showing her more personable side only away from his presence. Solness believes thathe has willed all his luck, but when we see that he does not even understand his own wife, the young visitor Hilde Wangel, spunkily played by Kristin Flanders, becomes the cipher through which the audience understands the play. Hilde is young...
Take a walk on the wild side and indulge in a short escape from the urban life; the Museum of Science's Mugar Omni Theater is showing "Alaska: Spirit of the Wild." The IMAX film is narrated by Charlton Heston and stars polar bears, caribou and other interesting wildlife...
...other side of the spectrum, Harvard's sprinters also look to improve on last year's finishes...