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...Homer did not simply view the sea as a danger. His sea pieces, even when the weather is bad, are seductive. The paint is of great richness, beautifully manipulated, running the gamut from thin, subtle glazes to expansive slathers of opaque pigment. And there is often a character of apparition: things are stranger than you imagine, though you believe he saw what he saw--witness the heads of the Gloucester fishermen appearing from the wave that hides their dory in Kissing the Moon, 1904, or the breaking wave on the rocks in West Point, Prout's Neck, 1900, that flings...
...famous author). He slaved over her first hit, The Children's Hour, giving her the plot, goading her to sharpen the language and making her exaggerated gambits more realistic. Meanwhile, his own fiction was languishing; weakened by drink and pulmonary disease, he published only one book, The Thin Man, after he met Hellman...
...Being too fat--or too thin--can be a risk for ARTHRITIS. Obese men raise their chances of developing arthritis by 70%; underweight men by 40%. Very thin women face no greater than normal risk, but heavy ones appear 50% more likely to get it. Sources--GOOD NEWS: New England Journal of Medicine; Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research; American Diabetes Association BAD NEWS: Pediatrics; UNICEF; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...
...citizenship status is already on thin ice: not only do I go to school back East, but I'm living with a group of people known for their know-it-all attitudes and general snobbery. Snobbery is a cardinal sin in a town this small. With so few people, chances are the woman you cut off in traffic yesterday will determine whether or not you get a library card tomorrow. Be rude to the man checking out your videos at the convenience store, and you'll find out at the next city council meeting he's deciding whether...
...posits that the basic building blocks of nature are not tiny particles but unimaginably small loops and snippets of what loosely resembles string--except that the string exists in a bizarre, 10-dimensional universe. The current version of the theory took shape in the late 1960s, when the tall, thin, shy, wispy-voiced scientist was still an undergraduate at Brandeis...