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...died on April 10 at 59, began his mission rather unpromisingly: after graduating from Shanghai's premier art institute in 1965, he spent a decade monotonously painting propaganda art and portraits of Mao Zedong during the Cultural Revolution. But after migrating to the U.S. in 1982, Chen found his hyper-realist paintings of pastoral scenes and flute-playing maidens a hit with foreign collectors, who snapped up the oils for as much as a quarter of a million dollars each-making Chen the highest-earning mainland-born artist at the time...
...students are a publicist's--or an evangelist's--dream. What do they like about the camp? Unity, they cry, and spirit. "We're psyched, we're hyper, we're excited," says Heather Toomey. Everyone's so supportive, the girls chime, and everything's so positive, and it's all so inspirational. Coming to this camp from a rival establishment, says Kellie Rich, 15, is like going "from darkness to light." The inner cheerleader cannot help flowering. "We're pretty spirited," says Andrea Bergman. "We've just got trouble with our moves...
When last I visited with you in this electronic space to chat about our Red Sox, they had just dispatched the Cardinals in summary fashion and had claimed the world championship that had eluded them for 86 years. I had just come off a second straight year chasing a hyper-harrowing seven-game ALCS against the Yankees, witnessing the wild shifts of fate from the cheap seats (well, not so cheap). And then, with the World Series win-with blessed deliverance-I was feeling pretty euphoric about all things Bosox. When friends would inevitably ask, "Aren't you going...
...close to it,” she says. “I would be so hyper-aware of historical inaccuracies that I would go mad…[In Carnation] my academic antennae aren’t working quite so hard...
This nihilism was coupled with a theatrical brightness indicative of a world that did not quite reflect the one that we live in, but rather a hyper-universe that was at once absurd and far-fetched...