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...vivid picture Maier draws of his boss from hell, however, is consistent with Cramer's account. "I had broken enough furniture and monitors and keyboards to last a lifetime," Cramer writes. It's no contest whose book is better: Cramer's, once you get past the bluster. Did he really memorize every closing price on the New York exchange? Cramer offers the best accounts I've read of how pros pay huge trading commissions to brokerage firms in return for the first call on stock-moving events like an analyst downgrade. New sec rules don't stop that or other...
...still-beautiful colors - greens, reds and pastels against vivid blue skies - have been painstakingly cleaned with small poultices of Japanese paper impregnated with a solution of ammonium carbonate. Areas where the paint had fallen, due to humidity or previous restorations, have been filled in with fine hatching: parallel brush strokes in watercolor. The team re-covered the rusting heads of nails used in the late 19th century to anchor plaster to the wall. They removed old fixatives and fillings of unsuitable materials such as cement. They corrected previous attempts at retouching where color had altered or fallen...
Parris and cast tapered the individual poems to fit the personalities and the experiences of the cast members. The result is a play as colorfully bold as the vivid dresses donned by the seven actresses...
...performance of Tatyana M. Ali ’02 in “no more love poems #4” is a vivid demonstration of her flexibility as an actress and of the play as a whole. The scene follows a woman who believes herself independent until a man breaks her heart. Resplendent in red, she ends the story with the powerful assertion, “my love is too delicate to be thrown back in my face...
Elizabeth C. Tippett ’02 had many anxiety dreams during her first year. “The most vivid one I remember involved handing in a paper for ‘The Political Development of Western Europe,’” she remembers. “The professor and I were in a burning building, and as I handed it in to the professor, my paper caught fire. And the professor was like, ‘Well, I can’t read it now, can I?’ I think it had something...