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...took note of the fact that as his English improved, so had his grades. And translating for his parents, as the boy frequently did, had given him an interest in language generally. That had led him to take and do well in advanced-placement Japanese. Send the kid a thick envelope...
...Arcis excepted, people doubted who it was. Believers continued to converge on Lirey. Later, after the shroud fell into the possession of Italy's royal Savoy family and was moved to Turin, the church granted it its own feast day, and crowds viewing its public showings grew so thick that some pilgrims died of suffocation...
...ruminative way, hankered after the paradise of the senses that de Kooning's touch represented, and it surfaces in the work that he had begun to do just before his paralysis in 1989 and was able to develop after his partial recovery. The dots and pixels become thick-painted squares, with highly colored microforms--lozenges, doughnuts, figure-eights--tossing around in them. The image of the head coarsens and blurs, breaks off at some edges, acquires a mysterious density. It's like looking at someone through ripple glass, and it produces striking results--as in Roy II, 1994, a portrait...
...less wealthy drunk sits down on a bench by the fountain. He yells "Hey!" at each female passerby and then looks away quickly, pretending not to have said anything. He and a guy on the bench with him, a sober 30-year-old with a thick cast on his arm, are both getting quite a kick out of this routine...
...Black and Blues's dressing rooms are an experience unto themselves. C.J. has sectioned off a corner of the store and enclosed it in brown crushed-velvet curtains. The problem with this solution is that the thick material blocks the light from entering the shower-stall sized compartments. And after an attempt at changing in this cramped, unlit space, the shopper must (potentially risking embarrassment) emerge into the store to check the look with a mirror...