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...William Cullen Bryant in his funeral oration on Cole, "that the conscious valleys miss his accustomed visits and that the autumnal glories of the woods are paler because of his departure." His death, opined a newspaper editorial, was "a public and national calamity." Even allowing for the high rhetorical tint required of such exequies 150 years ago, it's hard to think of an American artist whose death, tomorrow, would inspire such sentiments...
...directly, grabbing a file with a mouse, dragging it across the screen and dropping it into a folder or trash can. Much of the genius of the Mac -- its look and feel -- is in the accumulation of such details: the pinstripes across the top of a window; the gray tint in the scroll bar; the way an icon zooms to fill the screen when a new program is opened...
After a successful stint as executive director of the College Republicans, Reed moved from Washington to Raleigh and set up a conservative organization with an evangelical tint, Students for America. In 1984 North Carolina offered the country's hottest Senate race, Jesse Helms vs. Jim Hunt, and Reed wanted his new group to be in on the action. It was at the Helms victory party that a pretty 16-year-old Helms volunteer introduced herself to Reed. Jo Anne Young thought he was about 19 and "really cute." It would be nearly two years before they had their first official...
...late '40s, when record sales dipped, his marriage crumbled and he even made a botched suicide attempt. His marital infidelities get ample attention, particularly his stormy affair with Ava Gardner (Marcia Gay Harden). Along the way, he is portrayed as an egotistic hothead with a politically correct tint: when a hotel clerk tries to deny a room to black band member Sy Oliver, Sinatra bullies the fellow into turning over...
...added that two myths--of women as weak or incapable of handling power--frequently tint coverage and treatment of women...