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...disappointed, but I’m not ecstatic either,” said Rosemary H. Han ’10, who said that she would prefer someone more in the vein of political satirist Stephen Colbert...
...University’s Risk Management and Audit Services conduct the examination of the UC every three years in a process that takes about three months. In that vein, this year’s audit did not spring from any circumstantial conditions or allegations of poor fiscal discipline, according to UC Vice President Eric N. Hysen...
...most bluntly expressed, though, in a single statistic from Casement’s report: between 1906 and 1911 the Indian population of the Putumayo region declined from 50,000 to 8,000. These deaths were not part of a systematic extermination campaign, but were the products of a deep vein of institutionalised violence symptomatic of colonial subjugation...
...another vein, the down-tempo, almost ballad-like “Curves of the Needle” surprises listeners with its dark, powerful, and harmonic vocal arrangements and simple keyboard parts. The generally morose feel—“Oh, to be young again / To be loved again”—is occasionally energized by spurts of heavy rock where the song’s emotion truly bursts out. The album’s most striking song, its intensity provides a peak for the album’s emotional span...
...realistic depictions of shadows are that they be transparent and darker than their immediate surroundings. He has shown that reflections, like shadows, are a mystery to the human mind; their representation in art has but a few of the limitations which govern reality. He maintains, in a similar vein as Livingstone, that Impressionist art is so appealing because intentional blurring may connect representations more directly to emotional centers in the brain rather than to conscious image-recognition areas. Cavanagh has even offered an explanation why flat, two-dimensional representations are effective, arguing that we do not experience the visual world...