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...much the decision to paint the world "as they saw it" that made Impressionism; it was the way of painting it, which came out of Manet and reached its most brilliant expression as color in Monet. Manet perfected a graphic style in which the half tones that offered smooth transitions between high light and deep dark were suppressed; hence the critics' complaints of sketchiness and flatness. But this engaged the eye more, forcing it to assemble continuity from extremes of light and dark...
...arrangements and production of the songs on Cracked Rear View are a bit too smooth -- the blues are in the band's soul, and that would have been better reflected by music with a rawer, less processed feel. But on every song, Rucker's vocals are marvelously commanding. Low, rough and charismatic, his voice can convey depths of feeling that would do a true bluesman proud...
Epstein and Johnson said that by recommending the dean appoint an entirely new position, administrators will disrupt the smooth functioning of public service...
...also worries that if enough students grab their $20 back, the council will be bankrupt. A council bankruptcy created by the active participation of students strikes us as the smooth functioning of democracy. Even if only one in 10 students sent their fee in happily, the council would still have about $13,000 to play with. If you're only catering to one-tenth of the campus, we think that's plenty. If you happen to disappear, it's only because the whole student body wants...
...newly-declassified court filing, Noriega's attorneys have evidence that U.S. spooks paid him at least $10 million for favors -- a lot more than the $320,000 U.S. officials earlier acknowledged. U.S. censors blacked out large swaths of the brief, but Noriega's defense says he was paid to smooth clandestine U.S. efforts in Argentina and Nicaragua. What's more, he was paid $2 million to care for the shah of Iran. A judge barred the material from Noriega's drug trial, leaving his lawyers without "evidence to explain the source of his income in response to the government...