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...rise of Protestantism, the Catholic Church of the time began stressing individual piety and the spiritual reality that underlies appearances. El Greco's work, with its distortions for emotional effect and etiolated figures hovering in nonphysical space, reflects this. He even deforms eyes, and may have invented the ecstatic upward glance with a liquid highlight that can be seen on the strangely conical eyeballs of Mary Magdalen in Penitence (early 1580s). Not just a saint, she is also a symbol of repentance: a state of mind the church wished to encourage in its followers...
...billion Federal budget deficit this fiscal year, an upward revision by congressional forecasters to a level that exceeds even last year's record $375 billion...
...billion Price tag over 10 years of a new Medicare law offering prescription-drug benefits and private health plans to the elderly, an upward revision from the original estimate of $400 billion...
...Iraq invasion has cost the lives of more than 500 American soldiers, and more than 100 from allied armies. It has left almost 3,000 carrying the scars of serious wounds. More are being killed or wounded almost every day. The invasion has already cost the American taxpayer upward of $120 billion, and that figure is likely to keep growing. Up to 10,000 Iraqis are estimated to have been killed since the invasion began, and that figure, too, continues to rise. And there's no early end in sight...
...crowd cheered and threw fists upward, confetti machines blew bits of red, white and blue tissue into the wind blowing through the corridors of Cambridge Street...