Word: using
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...enjoyed talking to you that night. My main request to you is to ask you to profile a highly rated entering Harvard freshman for me. I would use that information to mould my daughter to be a potential Harvard student along those lines...
...copies of Ingres's portraits have been altered, or, to use Gilje's term, "restored." Instead of adding moustaches to these 19th century French figures, Gilje inserts contemporary references into the images. One man wears a black leather harness under his period jacket. A woman in an Empire dress and plumed hat displays her nipple rings and Warhol himself appears in a triple portrait. The question is, are Gilje's drawings anything more than amusing...
...Fiona Banner, Sylvie Fleury and Richard Prince treat the hot rod following the well-established Pop Art tradition of reusing familiar icons and images. Banner uses written text in the form of "wordscapes" in "Car Chases" (1998.) She describes the chase scenes in French Connection and Bullitt and, as her paragraph progresses, she gradually decreases the spacing between the red words for an effect of velocity and acceleration. The blurred-up effect towards the bottom of each piece gives you a feel of the rush of a hot rod screaming by and definitely disrupts the usual static nature of written...
...use the Internet? If so, what color is your heart? Has it become progressively darker as you have used the Internet more? Do you smoke under-regulated tobacco products manufactured by large contributors to Republican campaigns? If you do, have you used such products during the time in which your heart has supposedly been darkened by the Internet...
...There were 10 presidential candidates in Florida, and in most counties they were on a single ballot form. But in Palm Beach, where a lot of elderly people reside, officials decided to use larger type and spread the candidates over two sheets. And the unorthodox configuration placed the Gore punch hole near Buchanan's - Gore's hole is third but his name is second from the left hand side, opposite Buchanan's punch hole. And Democratic officials believe this created a confusion that saw Buchanan get a number of Gore votes. But it remains to be seen whether their lawyers...