Word: took
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When the trial finally began last week, the years of delays had taken their toll. Evidence had been lost, memories had faded, and at least one key witness had died. Ng, overweight and pasty-faced after years in prison, took his seat in an almost empty courtroom. Relatives of only three victims showed...
Such was Pollock's problem. The picture in which he broke free from it--and, it now seems, took American art into a larger freedom with him--was the 20-ft.-wide mural he did for Peggy Guggenheim. He painted it in one outpouring rush, in a day and a night. Mural isn't by any means an abstract painting. It retains the essence of subject matter shared by most "classical" murals, from Giotto to Matisse--the projection of human figures on a large plane surface. But the movement isn't suave. The figures are arabesques, coiling, jammed together, recognizable...
...looked so unpromising at first attain this clarity, strength and command of scale? Not easily, and it is very much to the show's credit that it includes failures and partial successes along with the works that incontestably come off. It makes you more alert to the risks Pollock took. There were no rules for what he was doing; the besetting danger was always overcongestion of the surface, so that no air was left between the marks and the energy he strove to transmit clogged...
...over clips onto a storyboard, where you assemble them. Avid also provides dozens of dissolves and fadeaways for making the transitions between scenes, as well as a tool for creating scrolling credits and titles. The whole process, from installation to previewing my first minute-long masterpiece, titled The Walker, took about four hours. You can save your movie on videotape or slim it down into a lower grade, streaming video format for the Web. (The premiere of The Walker can be seen on our website at timedigital.com. Only one problem: now I want a video camera...
Alex, who says he is not gay but "95% girl," chose to leave. Dozens of classmates--biological boys included--argued that the school was violating Alex's rights and donned hair bows in solidarity. But the protest was little comfort to the teen. "It really took a lot of guts for me to be confident enough to be who I am, and then this happens," he says. Alex, whose future plans include home schooling and a sex-change operation, says he originally went to private school to get a better education. This wasn't the lesson he expected...