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...painting? In truth, no; there was always something awkward about his handling of the human body, a Yankee stiffness that prevented him from emulating the sensuous fluency of Bonnard. The figures in his paintings are always in the right place, formally speaking. He was a wonderful arranger, with a stringent and finely honed eye for the needs and eccentricities of pictorial composition. But at the same time, his paintings don't suggest much feel for the movement and solidity of the body. His work prefers sociability to sensuality -- a trait shared by his friend Alex Katz. Porter painted few nudes...
President Clinton has been known to take on big assignments and give himself very stringent deadlines for their completion. He's had to get some extensions...
Outside class, however, the situation remained even less equal for Radcliffe women. From signing in and out of the dormitories to getting permission for road trips, Radcliffe students faced a far more stringent set of expectations, laid out in the "Red Book" issued to incoming students...
...populations of at least one species, the minke, are healthy enough not to be endangered by small-scale whaling. An estimated 86,700 minke whales live in the northeastern Atlantic and 760,000 in the Antarctic seas. Environmentalists distrust these numbers and counter that the IWC needs to develop stringent monitoring and enforcement before whaling can resume...
Swan said, "Since eating disorders are a part of the psychology of students who are overachievers, the statistic that one in five Harvard women have eating disorders seems realistic," Swan said. Swan attributed much of the eating disorder problem to overly-stringent cultural expectations...