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...little bit of human emotion,” he says. His tendency to blur lines is evident as he compares his painting of architectural lamps to flowers and the side view of a clock to a cityscape. Eighty percent of painting is the preparation, according to Powers, who will spend up to a week making the canvas for a piece. “The worst thing is making canvases,” he says. “You want to be out painting.” Nonetheless, he believes that the preparation is vital to the success of the painting...
Could you spend an entire year focused on one thing and one thing only? Could you endure months of three-a-day practices and fierce competition, knowing that there’s a chance it could all be for nothing...
...performer since her youth, and her ability to build complex characters springs from both her self-described “wild imagination” and her determined, artistic drive. She approached Harvard fresh from four years on the competitive forensics team at Milton Academy, where she was able to spend a year getting to know the characters she portrayed. When playing Teresa, for example, Kargman filled a notebook with personal details about the character’s life.“It was such a great foundation for me, in terms of learning to be able to create an entire...
...isolated” reader. “Some wrong turn was taken at some point between the age of eight and usually age 20, but often in junior high, where if things aren’t working out so well socially for you, for whatever reason, you spend a lot of time with books,” Franzen said. “Not surprisingly that pool of readers tends to give us most of our writers.” Wood noted that Franzen has had a difficult time writing novels after the success of “The Corrections...
...John Karefa-Smart, who will turn 93 in June, said he would spend the rest of his life working to improve Sierra Leone’s 80-percent illiteracy rate...