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...taking on was my job from last year, [Dean Harry R. Lewis ’68]’s job from last year, and the curricular review. And that was just too much,” said Gross. “So I’ve tried to touch most of the bases this year in the College. But I realize that I had to hire someone to help me divide up this...
...thought that would make it easy to be in touch with the government and people in financial practice without being so close that you would begin to get drawn in,” Mundheim says...
Although his weak lungs made it hard for him to lift a hammer, Modigliani initially thought of himself as a sculptor more than a painter. Three years after his arrival in Paris, he would meet Constantin Brancusi, the Romanian sculptor whose search for simplified line and form would touch something deep in Modigliani. It was through his sculptures in particular, nearly all of them totemic busts like Head of a Woman from 1912, that he would arrive at the sign system that he carried back into painting--ovoid heads on elongated Mannerist necks, with the nose a long, sharp fuselage...
...troops who played a key role in ferreting out the old tyrant. Though it was widely reported at the time that the pistol was loaded when they grabbed Saddam, Bush has told visitors that the gun was empty--and that it is still empty and safe to touch. "He really liked showing it off," says a recent visitor to the White House who has seen the gun. "He was really proud...
...went into the water and luckily were able to touch bottom. We could see an 8 ft. wall on which the engineers had put up wire mesh for us to climb. We waded through the water, avoiding mines, and my platoon eventually got to the beach. Jim, my other sergeant, took the men up the sand dunes and over the wall, whilst I reported to the beach master the number of troops I had brought ashore and my code number. He said thank you, get off this beach ... quickly...