"...the house had been boldly planned with a ball room-, so that, instead of squeezing through a narrow passage to get to it one parched solemnly down a vista of enfiladed drawing rooms (the sea-green, the crimson and the bouton d"or), seeing from afar the many-candled lustres reflected in the polished parquetry, and beyond that the depths of a conservatory where camellias and tree ferns arched their costly foliage over seats of black and gold bamboo."(Wharton 17)In the novel, the house is described with quite a bit of detail, but when actually seen in the movie the true beauty is brought...

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This was not really marble at all, but a black stone with a texture and markings not unlike real marble. ... There are certain classic ingredients of English Gothic architecture, which not only added to the cathedrals, but was great structural innovations as well. ... The second technical advance of note was the vault. ... This external feature is another example of a functional addition to cathedral design that was also added for the purpose of beauty. ...

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He quickly became known for his photographs in three classic genres which are the still lifes, celebrity portraits, and male and female nudes. A strong current of sexuality runs through much of Mapplethorpe's work, including his still lifes of flowers often anthropomorphized into figures teeming with erotic power, but mortality, the fragility of beauty, and even innocence are also recurring motifs throughout his work. ... Although most of the controversy focused on the gay sexual content of several of the photographs, many conservative leaders and critics also purported to find Mapple...

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So to comply Annette sewed on black leggings and sleeves, returning as sexy as before but with almost every inch of her skin covered (4). ... She was not a classic beauty but she received close to 50,000 letters after photos of her in a reclining position were released to the press. ... Bikini's were banned from beauty pageants after the Miss World Contest in 1951 because they were perceived as an unfair benefit to the wearer and potentially harmful to some judge's health (Rushin 5). ... However, sales were rising in the United States and those noting the growing number of private...

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The writer counts Psycho as a classic film in my film library. ... The writer feels that the use of black and white created a huge impact and that it would not have been the same if it was in color. ... The black and white in the writer's opinion added quality into the film. ... " We observe the beauty at that moment when we freeze the moment. ... We see that that Norman Bates takes out Further down the film, we see Marion tears out notes (700$) to pieces, she can't the bin so she flushed the money down the toilet. ...

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David Hockney's etching deals almost solely in black ink on white paper, though some shades of grey are seen. ... Yet without the title or any knowledge of how it was created, this image would not shock but be open to appreciation purely as an exercise of beauty. ... As Cynthia Freeland notes in But Is It Art? ... An alternative explanation could be that Picasso has the power to infiltrate Hockney's work without being translated into Hockney's classic strokes as other lesser objects, maybe even people, would be. ...

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Her parents contributed to and encouraged her intellect and creativity, and her older brother-who is now a poet and English professor-constantly challenged her with a classic, 5"healthy" sibling rivalry. ... " While Lin notes that working with another creative mind presents its difficulties, she remembers the collaboration fondly. ... This memorial, described as 13"a rift in the Earth-a long polished black stone wall, emerging from and receding into the Earth," is a prime example of the famous notion that less is more. ... Made of black granite, the walls stretch along a recess ...

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The form of this film was both minimalist and grand; Ford's classic location was Monument Valley, Arizona, with wide shots of human figures against an overpowering wilderness. ... For example, in the opening scene, the screen goes black and a title appears: "Texas 1868." ... As the scene continues, the black silhouette of a woman moves from the darkness through the door to the bright wilderness outside through which Monument Valley is seen. ... It also important to note that this opening scene is almost identical to the last one in the film, except that the character in the doorway is d...

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The main introduction in this essay is to point out the different character's personality, the internal and external issues and what causes the conflicts between them. Bringing out the violence that occur in the characters environment. Both the external and internal conflicts are going to be analyze...

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He became know as the "wild man of blues form the black country- (Miller,194) "Robert Plant, wooly, handsome in and obscenely rugged way, sang as if the songs had to fight their way out of his throat- (Abel, 555). ... Or the mock-dramatic "Heartbreaker," propelled by far more intricate but similarly effective note squashing. ... But it's the decidedly mellower acoustic groove of the album's latter half that's the news here, from the graceful beauty of "That's the Way" and "Tangerine" to the raw, folksy charm of "Bron-Y-Aur Stomp," "Hats Off (to Roy Harper)," and the tradi...

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"They were not enemies, they were not criminals, they were nothing but earthly now, nothing but black shadows of disease and starvation - This quote shows Conrad's sympathy for those who are being exploited for the benefit of others. ... The story itself is a parody of the classic British children's story Coral Island by R. ...

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Looking further into preliminary research for the topic I began to note the responsibility that a filmmaker has in portraying a piece of history, and difference in the way they have interpreted and re-interpreted history because of their subjectivity. ... Post-modernist thought began scraping out the black areas of history, which is, generally, all the stuff that wasn't considered important by the 'white middle class educated male historians '. ...

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What Shamanism Is By the Silver Circle Shaman (pronounced SHAH-maan) is a word from the language of the Tungus people of Siberia. A Shaman is a man or woman who enters an altered state of consciousness at will. The Shaman does this to contact and utilize an ordinarily hidden reality to acquire kn...

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