Word: laboredness
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And in fact, Guercino did not have Reni's breathtaking skill as a painter. But he was not afflicted by Reni's sentimentality either, and where he shone, as this compact and rewarding show makes clear, was in the act of drawing. By comparison with his preparatory drawings, Guercino's...
Weapons change purposes these days as easily as people change hats. But rumblings from the Pentagon indicate that even the latest version of Star Wars is in trouble. The first tremor came in a May 15 memo by Assistant Secretary of Defense David Chu leaked to the press last week...
Corzo notes that the artisans who labored in the tomb three millenniums ago left unexpected evidence of their fallibility. The rows of stars in the funerary ceiling were kept straight by strings stretched from wall to wall. In the sarcophagus chamber, conservators discovered a row of fingerprints left along a...
But mostly the show is pretentious and annoying. TV sitcoms are rarely models of subtlety, but few are acted and directed with such in-your-face coarseness. Candice Bergen, a two-time Emmy winner (in years when the Golden Girls were apparently snoozing), has anything but a light comic touch...
THE SYRIANS PHYSICALLY ACCEPTED A DOCUMENT from the Israelis for the first time, and the Palestinians declined to say no, exactly, to an Israeli election proposal in the occupied territories. It didn't seem like much of an achievement for the sixth round of Middle East peace talks, held last...