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...Sistine Chapel, is in its eighth year, with five years still to go. All the wall lunettes and three of the nine Old Testament scenes on the ceiling are finished, freed of 478 years of accumulated grime, crude repaints and successive coats of darkened glue size applied as a varnish by 17th and 18th century restorers. A quite different Michelangelo, one whose intensity and beauty of color matches his long-acknowledged grandeur as draftsman and iconographer, emerges. The vault of the Sistine is now the domain of light...
...pros also point to Michelangelo's ethic, so to speak, of fresco. Before he began work on the Sistine, Michelangelo knew all about the humiliating mess Leonardo da Vinci made by painting on walls with untested brews of oil, water and varnish bases, which began to come off almost as soon as they were put on. Though Michelangelo grouched about his immense Sistine task, there is no question of his mastery of pure fresco, which he had learned in Florence in 1488 from his master Ghirlandaio...
...changed so much," says company president Kenta Yamada, whose grandfather founded the business in 1919. An important step was making lacquer more affordable, partly by downplaying pricey occasional pieces in favor of everyday items like picture frames and kids' tableware. New production techniques, such as the use of synthetic varnish instead of traditional sap, helped cut costs, and savvier positioning introduced the brand to new markets. Some years ago, the Yamada Heiando store moved from Nihonbashi, Tokyo's best-known shopping area, to the hip neighborhood of Daikanyama, where funky boutiques and caf?s abound. The payoff? Yamada Heiando's sales...
...Vermont, Dean had a reputation for having a physician's willingness to deliver bad news without varnish or hesitation. But it is difficult to find much hard talk in his program now, apart from his plan to repeal the Bush tax cuts, which in any case pleases his Democratic-primary audience. Back in the mid-1990s, he advocated curbing the growth of Medicare and putting "Social Security back on the table." Now he says he would use the bulk of the savings from repealing the tax cuts for a huge new expansion of health care, that he could balance...
What makes photojournalism so powerful? It could be this: even in its raw state, it is finished work. No amount of varnish can change the message. Could anything say more clearly than the picture on the next page that those soldiers are a long way from home? For this special section, our photo editors have reached for 2003's most arresting photojournalism. The pictures, many taken on assignment for TIME, include searing images of the Iraq war. All the emotions get played out for the camera during wartime, from the terrified child with his hands up, to the exuberant soldier...