Word: smalling
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...enough for most small towns to have that big billboard at the edge of town, broadcasting their claim to fame...
...braced for Chasing Down the Dawn: Life Stories, your standard inspirational-rock-star-travelogue-and-Alas ka-guide-with-baby-snaps. "I wrote at least 1,000 pages for the book," says Jewel, though the final text comes in at a tight 176. "I enjoy writing about really small moments that are very fleeting but filled with portent...and whatever else they're filled with." In addition to the portent, the book has photos, including a young Jewel with a belly that would make Charles Durning proud and an in-the-gloaming cover shot of Jewel riding bareback. "When...
...convalescent homes and filming a video to explain the concept. Two rival inner-city schools in New York City joined together to paint a huge mural depicting their ideas. Even a few adults have caught the spirit. After reading the book, Doris Eakes, 62, of North Carolina endowed four small colleges with a $4.2 million trust (expected to grow into more than $20 million in her lifetime...
...Tawaraya Sotatsu and then written over by Koetsu, have acquired, for Japanese taste, the sort of cardinal importance that a fresco cycle or an altarpiece might have for ours. Koetsu's work, given the accumulated Japanese reactions to it, is perhaps the ultimate example of the power of the small, the exquisite, the almost marginal...
...Clearly he knew a lot about lacquer and was immersed in its possibilities--not a surprise, because he was well known as an expert on the classification of swords, whose scabbards and other fittings were always adorned with lacquer. Clearly too he liked innovations in technique that may seem small to us but, in the tradition-bound and slow-moving context of Japanese art and design, were quite significant. One was the near alchemical contrast of dull lead inlay and bright gold detail on black lacquer in works like the beautiful writing box named Ashibune, or "Reed Boat...