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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...proclaims the amateur more clearly than niggling and overcorrection. It can be violated (Homer sometimes did his highlights by tearing strips of paper away to show white below), but it also demands an exacting precision of the hand--and an eye that can translate solid into fluid in a wink. Homer understood and exploited all these needs of watercolor better than his contemporaries, and he applied them where they most belonged--to the recording of immediate experience. A painting like Key West, Hauling Anchor, 1903, has a sparkling directness hardly attainable in oil. It is so simple looking--blue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Into Arcadia with Rod and Gun | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

...Vista Del Mar clinic. "In seventh grade it seemed every single girl had tried it--except the really smart ones." Then there is the Internet, where cutting chat rooms are just a keystroke away. Many offer support for kids who want to stop, but just as many wink at the problem and even subtly encourage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Cruelest Cut | 5/9/2005 | See Source »

ABRAMOFF I did not base my lobbying on the stereotypical Washington image that lobbyists provide little more than a "wink, wink, nudge, nudge"--or gifts and gratuities. In my view, no worthy members of Congress or their staff would ever change their position on an issue based on anything other than their constituents' interests or their own deeply held views. My lobbying efforts were focused on presenting my clients' causes in a way which was consistent with the philosophy of my friends on Capitol Hill. That's why I had such a record of success--not because anyone received gifts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jack in a Box | 5/2/2005 | See Source »

Your Hottest Trait: The wink...

Author: By FM Staff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The 15 Hottest Freshmen | 3/17/2005 | See Source »

...happy families in which Mum and Dad share the reading of bedtime stories and both enjoy spontaneous moments of connection with their children - a shared chuckle in the hallway, a wink at the dinner table - the tribulations of separated parents can seem remote. But if it's not your own family that's breaking apart, then it's probably your neighbor's, or your sibling's or your colleague's. Australia's divorce rate of 42% equates to about 70,000 couples - most with children - splitting each year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Giving Fathers A Fairer Go | 3/6/2005 | See Source »

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