Word: painting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...story is sad but not hopeless. The culprit is more a fugitive red paint pigment that faded with exposure to sunlight than neglect by the infamous Harvard Corporation, the owners of the murals. It is a story easily sensationalized, and has readily been made into a pseudo-scandal, a skeleton in the university's closet. "Rothko had a very high, serious sense for the murals, which is partly a basis for problems that occurred later. I don't think that either side, Rothko or Harvard, had a full understanding of what to do with the murals. There was subliminal misunderstanding...
...Still, it is important not to paint consulting with over-broad brush strokes. Whil firm policies and cultures exist that encourage recent college graduates to feel more valued and involved than their entry-level counterparts in other professions, the abundance of teams, mentors and collegiate metaphors does not erase the fact that consulting firms are populated by extremely ambitious and "overachieving" people. During my visit, everyone was on good behavior. But management consultants do not always feel valued, projects that involve tremendous amounts of work may, in fact, have little effect on a client decision-making and sometimes, ambition...
Owning both the paint and the boards, Johnson could have built a fence. She grabbed 18 rebounds and poured in 16 points. Her 18 rebounds tied her for sixth on the Harvard all-time single-game rebound list...
...Ides provided height and strength in the paint as she played 24 minutes and scored five points...
...hang out at every mall in America probably don't realize it--and neither, undoubtedly, do their unsettled parents--but they belong to a tradition as old as recorded history--probably much older. Ever since our Neolithic ancestors invented art tens of thousands of years ago, humans have been painting, sculpting and otherwise decorating everything in sight. The human body is just the nearest and most intimate canvas. Says anthropologist Enid Schildkrout of the American Museum of Natural History in New York City: "There is no known culture in which people do not paint, pierce, tattoo, reshape or simply adorn...