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...falls a bit short of its predecessor's headlong exhilaration, it still delivers a good helping of the right stuff. Chief among its virtues is the killer band that Parton has mostly retained from the first album, especially the remarkable Jerry Douglas on dobro and Stuart Duncan on fiddle. The ease with which these young veterans propel winners such as "Seven Bridges Road" carries over to and elevates less inspiring selections like Collective Soul's "Shine," and when Dolly and her boys kick in with all cylinders as they do on a bona fide classic like the Louvin Brothers...
...religious prophets, musicians and writers, from Aldous Huxley and Thomas Mann to Henry Miller and Nathanael West. A lot of photography, of course, especially ultrasharp f/64 pix of very grand mountains by Ansel Adams and fuzzy Pictorialist ones of American nudes capering among the redwoods in homage to Isadora Duncan. In sculpture, not a hell of a lot. In painting, sad to admit, not much either. Two shining exceptions are recent--Richard Diebenkorn (1922-93) and Wayne Thiebaud (1920- ). But it should be grasped that one is not dealing with New York City 1900-2000, and still less with Paris...
Kennedy School student G. Imani Duncan said the protest was "an issue about morality, or lack thereof...
...Duncan interpreted the fast response time as suggesting that people perceive each square as a discrete, coherent unit and record various information about it together, allowing for quick recall...
...findings mirror those claimed by Duncan. When subjects were asked to note jumps in one characteristic of each patch, forcing them to pay attention to both patches, they were unable to do so accurately. But when asked to note two jumps for a single patch, the subjects were able to do so with great accuracy...