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...Though some critics contend the process produced undesirable changes in color, the majority think it revealed the original hues used by Michelangelo in their pristine state. The Judgment, probably the world's most important example of fresco -- a technique that involves applying water-based pigments to a still wet plaster wall -- has not been seen by the public since 1990, when it was hidden behind draped scaffolding. As with the ceiling, its cleaner and brighter look, once revealed, is certain to generate debate. Says Mancinelli: "((The fresco)) wasn't painted in Tuscan color that you might associate with Michelangelo...
...Paddy Clarke, while intermittently funny, fresh and affecting, is ultimately frustrating. Its hero serves as its narrator, a 10- year-old boy trying, with his gang of schoolmates and other pals, to wreak mischief in their Dublin neighborhood, circa the mid-1960s. Graffiti, whether spray-painted or gouged in wet cement, constitute a major offensive strategy. Another is invading forbidden turf, such as walled-off backyards, where the prospect of a pair of ladies' knickers on a clothesline drives the lads into a frenzy of guilty glee...
...feeling of belittlement when confronted by peers and high school faculty who carelessly and sometimes innocently inferred that he was accepted only because of his ethnicity. Upon arriving at Harvard, Navarrette found himself in an alien environment. He was shocked by the transition from dry and sunny California to wet and dreary New England, as well as the change from a community that is predominantly Mexican-American (70% of the population) to one where Chicanos form an almost invisible minority (only 2.5% at Harvard...
...adolescence remain--hand-made calendars marked off in Latin, New Yorker covers I pinned up during my pretentious sophomore year of high school, a hex circle bought on an eighth-grade trip to Amish Country. The smells are the same, somehow--deodorant I used senior year, the wet leaves on the trees by the skylight, the old books I had collected since seventh grade...
...defensive battle. It was cold and wet, so it was hard to keep a hold of the ball," Preware said...