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...more memorable works, titled “From the Sources,” Weil paints a pair of hands holding a paint brush. The range of oranges in this canvas alone is impressive: While the background is painted loosely in a happy mango orange, the shade gradually merges into the russet-orange of the hands, and finally to a lemony yellow evoking the images of autumn leaves. While much of the paint is loosely layered, a thin layer of pastel blues and khaki greens can be identified underneath the intense oranges. These blues and greens are made visible through...
What’s more, Swift is utterly normal. There’s no Cambridge mansion or Kennedy-esque legacy in this politico’s background. Swift is from the western Mass. town of North Adams and is the daughter of a teacher and a plumber. She’s won and lost political races, becoming the youngest woman ever to be elected to the state senate (she was 25), althoughy she lost a 1996 race for Congress...
...Because the stakes are so high, do you get the sense that there's been much diplomacy in the background? The negotiators in Beijing are handling some tough issues in which agreement may prove elusive, and presumably some measure of mutual reassurance is required at higher levels...
...literature, can produce art. Theory aside, “American Folk” is no grand curatorial achievement. Within the space that has held Van Goghs hang quilts, family portraits and marriage contracts. American Folk should be the counterpart to an American history class, for without this background, the exhibit simply becomes a collection of tattered quilts and poorly proportioned portraits of strangers...
...Ogden, Plessy v. Ferguson, Korematsu v. United States and Miranda v. Arizona are revisited. Rehnquist explains his omission of more recent cases by stating that he chose not to discuss cases in which “any of [his] present colleagues have played a part.” A background in US history is helpful, especially since this section reads like a history textbook. Not only is the tone academic, but it can also be unexpectedly personal. Rehnquist occasionally adds interjections, when he shifts from third to first person. For example, while explaining how geographic qualifications of the justices related...