Word: thingness
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...have its own Super Bowl - a good thing, that - but it never lacks for head-to-head competitions. Picasso and Matisse played show-me-what-you-got for decades, continually rolling out works meant to show up the other guy. Leonardo, Michelangelo and Raphael all kept a cool eye on each other. And there's a brisk little chapter in the history of Abstract Expressionism that could fairly be called De Kooning vs. Pollock...
...Miracle of the Slave, a tour de force crowd scene (not included in the Boston show) that he shrewdly unveiled while Titian was away from Venice so that the old man couldn't mobilize local opinion against it. With Tintoretto, the harmony and serenity of Bellini are entirely a thing of the past. Figures whirl, somersault and lunge like darts in and out of the picture. The palette is iridescent, and at close range, the sketchy forms can dissolve into a tangle of near illegible, stutter-step brushstrokes. Tintoretto's portraits were more restrained - aristocratic clients expected to be offered...
Opportunity is the silver lining embedded into every crisis. With so many sectors in flux, savvy players will reap rewards. But executives are demonstrating an unwillingness to retrench, and the report mounts a persuasive case for why that's a dangerous thing. Emerging from the tumult unscathed requires a clear-eyed look at the recession's bleak realities-and the talents of a turnaround artist. "The global economic landscape will be changed for at least a generation," the authors write. "Preparing for that eventuality now is essential." Perhaps because they have more to lose from not doing so, the cream...
...Things that could be done are to avoid spraying when possible,” Quinn said. “Wiping is better than spraying, any thing that aerosols should be avoided. Also, have ventilation is important...
...from the worst example of a revolutionary movement lapsed into self-enrichment and autocracy. But because South Africa is the continent's biggest economy and natural leader, the ANC is a role model and has influence beyond South Africa's borders. That's not always been a good thing. Mbeki, who succeeded Mandela as President in 1999, tried to forge a middle way between revolution and democracy by calling on the ANC to embrace a "democratic revolution" in government. The approach proved schizophrenic. Mbeki the democrat adopted liberal economics, oversaw impressive growth and won plaudits as a consensus-building peace...