Word: touchings
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...gigantic compared to the background landscape, making them monumental." The same attention to character is evident in his frescoes. La Madonna del Parto (The Pregnant Madonna) in Monterchi and La Maddelena (Mary Magdalene) in Arezzo's cathedral feature a similar female face, which is both angelic and a touch uneasy. Bertelli says the artist is able to capture the fleeting emotion of his subjects: "It's almost as if the person was obligated for some mysterious reason to stay there. It was destiny to arrive there at that moment with that particular light and body language and expression." A late...
Despite advances in technology, typing may be the deciding success factor. The OQO2 differs from the FlipStart in featuring a slide-out keyboard rather than a traditional clamshell top that flips open for laptop-like input. "My mother forced me to take touch typing in high school, and I've always been glad for that," Allen says. He argues that the FlipStart's flat bottom lets users put it down to type comfortably...
...line for a movie, he says. "Putting a mobile device like this in a clamshell feels like old-think. It's a holdover of how people viewed the last generation of computing. We're creating the next generation of computing." Did he just call Paul Allen out of touch...
...refining prototype keyboards. Theirs is more about thumb typing than table typing. They obsessed over the mini-mouse device that controls the cursor, called a "trackstick," trying to make it feel, in their words, "buttery." FlipStart took a more-is-better approach, incorporating both a trackstick and a touch...
...College plans to have its annual visiting program for admitted students from April 21 to 23. Until then, accepted students have access to online chat sessions and message boards to get in touch with potential classmates. Students have until May 1 to accept or reject their offer from Harvard. —Staff writer Aditi Balakrishna can be reached at balakris@fas.harvard.edu...