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...every Bacon is a triumph, however. As early as the mid-1950s, inspired by Van Gogh and by the keen sunlight of Tangiers, where he was spending much of his time in a miserable love affair, he attempted to work in brighter colors and with looser brushwork. The result was a few congested, conventionally expressionist canvases. But the movement to a high-key palette also opened the way to the orange, lilac and pale beige backgrounds that make his work of the '60s and '70s so unnerving, precisely because the agonized figures struggle in such bright spaces...
Though the figures from the study simply confirm what was expected, van Dam said that the novelty of the study lay in quantifying the combined effects of healthy lifestyle factors...
...clear that the camera has been filming upside down. Entitled “Shift,” the nine-minute film by Ernie Gehr switches between an upright and inverted point-of-view. The film continues on in this way with bicycles, garbage trucks, and, at one point, a van of piano movers. “An almost perfect example of Emerson’s principle that a few mechanical changes can make a person think,” Sitney said afterward. “What we see here is a portrait of street life by someone who perceives...
...women who adhered to all four lifestyle factors, van Dam and his team estimated the overall risk of death was reduced by 55 percent, in addition to a 44 percent reduced risk of dying from cancer and a 72 percent lower risk from heart disease...
School of Public Health professor Rob M. van Dam, who is the first author of the study, said that he and his colleagues collected data from 77,782 married nurses from across the nation over a span of 24 years...