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...never went to Japan, he was seen as a bridge between East and West, the voracious collector of blue-and-white porcelain who brought a Japanese aesthetic of hints and nuances into late 19th century painting. His abhorrence of narrative, his preference for the exquisitely designed moment over the slice of life, was new; it epitomized the idea of Art for Art's Sake. It was provocative, in 1871, to call a portrait of his mother Arrangement in Grey and Black. It implied that the hallowed sentimentality about motherhood in Victorian England was cultural baggage, that the aesthetic life...
...Serbian road to Pale, and cut off the Serbian capital from the rest of the country." The Bosnian government sources, however, predict that once Serb forces become secure, Zepa could still fall by Wednesday. Things inside the enclave have become so desperate, Barnes adds, that a slice of bread now sells...
...south Utah desert. The program, the Bacons decided, could be just the thing to help their son get back on track. "I pictured Aaron sitting around campfires, being nurtured by nature," Sally Bacon explained to the Los Angeles Times. "I thought I was sending him to a little slice of heaven...
Meanwhile, company sources happily volunteer the information that rap music represents only a small slice of Time Warner's total revenues: $85 million last year, about 2% of the $4 billion that the music division generates and an even tinier fraction of Time Warner's $15.9 billion in annual revenues. Translation: if the company were forced to scale back on rap, the bottom-line impact would be minimal...
...profitable direction. Microsoft crafted a strategy by which the company could make it easier for people using Microsoft software to do everyday transactions over the networks-pay bills, order from catalogs, check bank balances. "Our plan," says Myhrvold, "is to make the pie really big and take a little slice out of each transaction...