Word: thingness
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...that you can't replace the kind of free play you get from standing before a large canvas. Scale is important; surfaces are important - they play a role in making the painting vibrant. The difference between the original and a high-resolution image is the difference between a living thing and a corpse...
Well, the No. 1 thing is looks. But then you have to get into something that's much more unique, and that's personality. The universal sex symbol of the 20th century was Marilyn Monroe because she was both sexual and vulnerable. That combination had tremendous appeal...
...still us--that is, let us pause for a moment and, as we contemplate that careful, careful language, hopefully see situations anew, from a different angle. That's so much of what art and poetry offer. To have that affirmed by the President-elect has really been an exciting thing for poets...
...produce a thorough description of Homo sapiens using the kind of language we ordinarily reserve for animals. In Animals Make Us Human (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; 342 pages), Grandin does the opposite: she describes animals in terms we usually associate with human beings. Both writers are after the same thing. They want to demolish the hard line that separates people from animals; you might call it the doctrine of human exceptionalism. They're both tunneling under the bars of the cage, but they're doing it from different directions...
...under criticism on Wall Street and Capitol Hill for being hesitant and reactive. Associates say Geithner doesn't necessarily disagree with the charge that the government's response "has had an ad hoc, seat-of-the-pants quality to it," as a senior investment banker in the middle of things puts it. That's one reason Geithner and the rest of the Obama economic team have indicated that they plan to move more aggressively, on an even broader scale, than the government has to date. Geithner has declined publicly to put a number on just how large a stimulus package...