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… contain little scenes framed by trees, with distant focal points. Framing a view within a larger landscape, as if it … custom floor covering at a bargain price. When Thomson died in 1846, his possessions included a valuable, nearly … from private collections and reappeared in museums. The website of the Wads-worth Atheneum Museum of Art in …
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… that gender should have no affect on a person’s job compensation. Where things stand The median weekly earnings … and a decrease in cumulative work experience. Critics also observe that the wage statistics do not take fringe … experience, tenure, and educational background when making compensation decisions. However, a Government Accountability …
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… This, I thought, was not only terrific satire, but fine comedy as well. Yet when I recently read the passage again, … such different chords at once is not only high art, it’s also the essence of Carol Shields’ writing—the iridescent, … set, skimming giddily across the River Styx. Carol Shields died on July 16, 2003, at her home in Victoria, British …
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… Braised Pork Bellies and the Foodie Underground I was on the cutting edge of the slow food … of porcine-inspired fare in the multipurpose room of a community center in Madison. Billed as a “celebration of the … the point of absurdity, focusing on the rarity of the varietals and the inaccessibility of the producer, instead of how …
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… line that imposes everything onto her. The third line, completing the sentence, reconciles extremes in a generous … leaves him more anxious than most writers to reach that audience and shape their sense of him. He can only be who he … reviewing. This interesting bit of reception history points to cross currents in democracy itself: independence …
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… past couple of months”: [I]nvariably, in phone-tag intramurals preceding our meetings, every message Lee left on my … “me” / “see,” and “plain” / “Wayne,” are linguistically uncomplicated, as if simply revealing a hard truth, a “simple … rhyme adds vehemence to these harsh dismissals. It embodies the anger that the words express. “Poetry of bad …