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...Romance of the Machine Age. In Power Series, Wheels, his 1939 picture of a locomotive wheel assembly, Sheeler wants you to admire the hard new beauty of a plain steel mechanism. But there's no mistaking the libidinous headway in this picture. Those muscular steel drive shafts, that little spurt of steam in the lower right--Sheeler's superchief is as full of winking sex as Marcel Duchamp's Great Glass. It's also funnier because it keeps such a straight face...
...Anatomy and the Figure.” Unlike Ellis’ works, which are far more visually disciplined, Baron’s paintings writhe before the viewer in red, black and the occasional touch of gray. In his two untitled works of 2001, Baron occasionally allows a vivid spurt of green or blue to peek through from beneath the painted surface...
Growth will most likely mean the conquering of new territory. With the British budget market already the best-developed in Europe, observers expect the next growth spurt to come from Germany, a nation of inveterate travelers and Internet users, making sales easier. Certainly, easyJet has staked its claim: it has secured an option to buy Deutsche BA - a struggling full-fare German subsidiary of British Airways - with the apparent intention of turning the 16-plane fleet into a budget operation...
Harvard refused to be buried, though, stringing together a three-goal spurt in the fourth quarter. Co-captain Jim Christian, sophomore Jeff Gottschall and junior Jay Wich all scored in rapid-fire succession—Wich’s strike came just eight seconds after Gottschall’s—to bring Harvard back within two goals...
...week earlier, Harvard put a similar fourth-quarter scare into the Quakers before dropping its first decision of the season. Iannacone’s insurance goal with 5:13 left stopped some serious bleeding for Penn, whose string of second-half penalties had aided a 3-0 Crimson spurt...