Word: vel
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...flight comfort with an internet connection in every seat Take a Hike Destinations to restore your sense of wonder quotidian needs in order to reduce time spent in front of the computer. "Nabaztag is a way to stay connected without burnout," explains Violet co-founder Olivier Mével. Its creators wanted a noncomputer form for their invention, and a bunny fit the bill. "We wanted something that was cute, modest and not intimidating,"says Mével. Retailing for $120, Nabaztag is scheduled for launch in France at the end of June, and the firm is planning...
...them majesty even as his grubby detailing kept them all too human. He invented tragic realism: his work was the great hinge upon which art turned, not just toward the Baroque, but toward us. The force and immediacy that make 17th century painters so moving - the everyday people in Velázquez and Rembrandt; the strobe-lit dramas in Ribera and Georges de La Tour - flow in part from ideas that Caravaggio placed before them. Only Poussin was untouched by him, which helps to explain why so much of Poussin is a classroom bore. In the last years...
...Beckmann retrospective at the Centre Pompidou, the season's new shows include Old Masters, guitar gods and great photographers. At the Musée d'Orsay, Manet/Velázquez, The Spanish Manner in the 19th Century documents the influence of the great 17th and 18th century Spanish painters - Velázquez, Mur?llo, Zurbarán, Ribéra, Goya - on such 19th century French artists as Manet, Delacroix, Chassériau and Courbet. What the French learned from their Spanish predecessors was a gritty realism previously unknown in France's academic art world - ordinary subjects like beggars and street urchins...
...Reginald Vel Johnson, TV's lovable Carl Winslow, makes the leap from television sitcoms to his first feature role. In Chocolat, he plays Shawn Kemp, a 330-pound power forward who struggles with his eating problems and his confinement to the Portland Trail Blazers bench. He also cannot spell the foods he loves so much because, like so many NBA players today, he made the leap to the pros before he finished school. Of course, that was back when he could leap...
ARIANNA HUFFINGTON Neolefty's "Shadow Convention" hardly noticed, but you do look MAH-vel...