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This is circus stripped down to its most basic elements: simple blue tent, one ring, two clowns and none of the fancy smoke or lighting that has become commonplace in the increasingly sophisticated recent big-top circus revival. This month, Cirque de Soleil pitches its tent for the eagerly anticipated “Dralion,” its newest, biggest and most expensive (and expansive) production ever at Liberty State Park in New Jersey, while earlier this year, Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey offered a three-ring flashy extravaganza, “Kaleidoscope,” in a massive...
...detail of the birds and their arrangement on the paper make it stand out. White depicts only a few full pigeons, showing just the feet and other extremities of the others. Painted in pinkish flesh tones, “Nude” is also simple, showing just the basic figure of a nude woman. But its simplicity and texture gives it an elegance and distinction the other drawings of nudes lack. In this case, as with all of the paintings, the medium is the force that makes the work interesting...
...paintings read much like a scrapbook offering the viewer numerous glances into the domestic life of suburban America. Haney’s art tends towards abstraction, showing several motifs and scenes within one piece. She reduces household imagery such as fruit, bowls and cooking implements to their basic color and form. Haney combines shapes in a manner that emphasizes their proximity to the other shapes in the painting...
...FTAA would so compromise the ability of nation-states to maintain democratic control over basic regulatory powers, why are 34 of the nations in North and South America participating in the FTAA negotiations? First, most smaller nations, saddled with debt to the World Bank, IMF and northern investors, don’t have much of an option: with poorly capitalized markets, opting out of a trade agreement offered by the North would most likely precipitate a sudden fall in “investor confidence” among foreign investors, a corresponding crash in currency value and a decline in economic...
...most of these cases, conventional serology (or bloodwork) has been performed. And in some later cases, there's been very basic DNA testing. But as more advanced testing systems became widely available in late 1990s, questions about previous testing techniques started to emerge. If those earlier tests couldn't give us the whole truth, but newer tests can come a lot closer, why not use the newer technology...