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Caravaggio's, his early St. Jeromes and St. Sebastians seem transfixed by light, which hits them from a single-point source. In the days before gaslight, this was known as "cellar painting" because the only way to get the effect was by putting the model in darkness with a window that let in a single ray of sun. This gave their poses and gestures both the emphasis of drama and a degree of abstraction...
...commanding lead, it is possible that Perot's reappearance act will have no effect on the outcome. But it offered the Republicans an unexpected break and a chance to beat the odds. "The race wasn't going anywhere for us," said a Bush campaign official. "Now we have a window of opportunity to change their minds. It is not a guarantee, but it is at least an opening...
...When you look at race questions, you are often looking through a window at how institutions function or fail to function," Epps said. Harvard and Redcliffe are places where we can take the "high points" of each civilization and become broader and better people, he said...
There were 46 showcase booths at the convention, with inventions ranging from car window defrosters to beach slides for babies. There were also five booths devoted to serving the needs of the inventors, including booths to secure patents...
Matisse had his leitmotivs, the full scope of whose recurrence only becomes clear in a show like this. One is the view through a door or window, from inside a room. One first sees it in 1896, in a small, unremarkable study of an open door giving onto the sea in Brittany. It reappears, in a way that promises its eventual form, in a small picture from 1901-02, Studio Under the Eaves -- a brown, dim room with a blaze of sacramental light at the end, a glimpse of apricot wall and flowering tree. From then on it will appear...