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...Guimet curators make the point that by blending Song and Ming styles, the Choson artists created their own pictorial vocabulary, one more personal, more poetic and closer to nature than their Chinese contemporaries'. historically, Koreans have certainly felt that their country is one of uncommon beauty?and this delight in their natural setting is evident in the exhibition's evocative landscape paintings. The Korean artists pay particular attention to the subjects in the foreground?mountains, plants, trees, rocks?leaving the background almost empty to maximize the feeling of depth and provide a sense of perspective that their Chinese counterparts often...
cmt.com closely monitors postings about Cowboy Troy, and the few so far that have used racial epithets have been swiftly removed. Even so, antebellum echoes are not uncommon: "He is just polluting this awesome genre. This is such an abomination"; "A discrace [sic] to humanity [is] Troy on stage and the white girls down front dancing for him." Those who say the debate about segregation vs. integration is strictly musical usually point to Charley Pride, a genuine black superstar who had 29 No. 1 country hits from 1966 to 1989. But when Pride made his debut, his label didn...
...like to be called “assistants,” not “graders”—you may be able to ferret out one or two cosmic assumptions of his own; seeing them in your bluebook, he can only applaud your uncommon perception. For example, while most graders are politically unconcerned, not all are agnostic. This is an older generation, recall. Some may be tired of St. Augustine flattened by a phrase or reading about the “Xian myth...
Moments such as these, of innocence and resignation, suggest a gentler side to Van Peeble’s strident political persona. In that respect, the HFA event fulfilled its purpose perfectly: it offered uncommon insight into mind and heart of a cinematic fixture. And that is truly...
Attacks like this aren’t uncommon. HCS has suffered a handful over the past year, the web server for the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) department has been similarly attacked, and the people.fas server, which holds student home pages, is at the very least vulnerable, if anyone is running poorly written code on it (and, surely, someone is). To be fair, these attacks aren’t terribly dangerous—barring deeper security problems, they can’t really do much more damage than messing up a few web sites, and clever configuration can even...