Word: virtual
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Everything in the show, even the virtual stick figures that march across very early pottery pieces, is enlivened by the Greeks' emerging confidence in human capabilities. But the most riveting works are inevitably the later ones. These include half a dozen examples of the free-standing marble figures called kouroi ("youths") that in the 6th century became the chief expression of the Greek belief in the human figure as the earthly signifier of the divine. Advancing rapidly in style from decade to decade, the kouroi appear to be the first examples of art for art's sake, their function...
Within 24 hours, Delvalle was under virtual house arrest. His phone lines were cut, and police appeared on the street when he lived. By Saturday morning an officer who arrived to tell Delvalle to leave the country found that he had fled. Later Delvalle claimed in a phone interview that he was still in Panama and vowed to fight...
Though not intended specifically to help HSA, the rule has given the company a virtual monopoly in providing both on-campus services and business experience, says Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III. Over the years, Epps has allowed few exceptions to the rule, but he says he recently granted an exception for the Organization of Harvard Spirit, an insignia agency...
While ALS has made Hawking a virtual prisoner in his own body, it has left his courage and humor intact, his intellect free to roam. And roam it does, from the infinitesimal to the infinite, from the subatomic realm to the far reaches of the universe. In the course of these mental expeditions, Hawking has conceived startling new theories about black holes and the tumultuous events that immediately followed the Big Bang from which the universe sprang. More recently, he has unsettled both physicists and theologians by suggesting that the universe has no boundaries, was not created and will...
Icahn divides his time between weekends with his family at their 20-room home north of New York City and weekdays at a Manhattan apartment, just a two- block walk from his office. The fearsome raider is so shy that he is sometimes reluctant to brush off virtual strangers who approach him in public. While the strain of managing so many ventures clearly shows in his face, Icahn professes no interest in slowing down. Referring to his efforts to topple what he calls "arrogant, incompetent managements," he says, "There is a great fulfillment that you can do something about...