Word: timelessly
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...Sher-Gil was prolific in a short life, and some of her work seems hastily composed. But in her best paintings, brilliant details combine to create a timeless monumentality. In The Haldi Grinders, a group of women engaged in a mundane activity, crushing turmeric, are obscured by trees, their bodies distilled into a clutch of hands that grip the crushing wheel; we spy on them and their vivid hands as if trespassing on a religious mystery. The young Brahmins of Brahmacharis, with their distinctive faces, look like so many who still sit beside temples in South India, yet they could...
...From the air, the 46,000 lunging, rolling, curving, tangled miles of America's Interstate Highway System sprawl across the continent like some outsized Rorschach pattern. These multi-laned, guard-rail-clad corridors by now seem timeless, like pre-Cambrian mountains bolted to the landscape. So it's hard to believe that America's freeway system turns 50 this summer - a chronological blip on the tectonic plates too slight for a spectrometer, but in the life of our republic, a golden anniversary...
Professor of Psychology Philip J. Stone, a pioneer in the field of positive psychology who also revolutionized the use of computers in the social sciences, died in his Cambridge apartment on Jan. 31. He was 69.Colleagues and friends described Stone as a “timeless Renaissance man” who inspired a generation of Harvard undergraduates.AHEAD OF HIS TIMEThe precocious Stone entered the University of Chicago at age 15. By 23, he had a doctorate in psychology and social relations from Harvard. He began teaching here in 1960 and remained on the faculty for the rest of his life...
...hasn’t wanted to whip out a line that sharp? But most of us don’t have that kind of quick wit. It’s mostly confined to the hilarious comedies of the 1930s, particularly “Stage Door,” the timeless story of a boardinghouse full of young actresses trying to make it on Broadway. If modern heroines were witty enough, it’s easy to imagine the story transplanted to modern L.A. But no one could replace the whip-smart original cast, which features Katherine Hepburn, Ginger Rodgers...
...what needs to be done. He has been working in Sudan for 20 years and has been instrumental in mobilizing Americans to get involved on a grass-roots level. Also Shirin Neshat, who is making some of the most riveting art about the Muslim world. It's majestic, timeless, frightening and even prophetic...