Finally, there is Wall the lurking suitor of beauty in landscape, cityscape, interior, and still-life.
The work of Italian still-life artist Giorgio Morandi provided the genesis for the painter's table, if not for the entire undertaking.
Interestingly, during these years Braque was soon joined in using this Vanitas subject by Picasso, whose own still-life paintings and sculpture now employed skulls.
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In addition to shooting wide-angle shots in close quarters, expansive panoramas and nose-to-nose close-ups, the Olympus SP-620UZ is flexible enough to experiment with intermediate zoom settings for portraits, still-life subjects and movies.
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One highlight of the May auctions was the sale of ''Nature Morte au Melon Vert, '' a delicious still-life composition by the painter Paul Cezanne that grabbed the top price at Sotheby's Impressionist and Modern auction.
The situation has been made worse by the curators' decision to display both collections, not in an encyclopedic chronological sequence, but by grouping the works of art in a series of exhibitions based on genres or subjects war, nudes, landscapes, still-life, and so on.
Vegans and the gluten-averse can take solace in classic contorni broccoli rabe with raisins and pine nuts, spinach aglio olio and in salads like the pretty plate of rainbow beets, a still-life of fuchsia, crimson, and yellow, its sweetness offset by the peppery bite of bright-green wild watercress.
Where the first is expansive, with figures pointing out of the picture plane and with food arranged on the table in the manner of a still-life, the second is more restrained and internal, concentrating on the mystery surrounding Christ, rather than on the dramatic moment of recognition.
Lay underscored that he took "full responsibility for everything that happened at Enron, " acknowledging the mass agony of thousands of jobs, still-untold life savings and billions of investor dollars that were annihilated by the collapse.
Prosecutors claim the former CEO left the company when he did because he allegedly detected the whiff of scandal in the air: lawmen say Skilling knew Enron's finances were unsound and feared the very implosion that destroyed the company, wiped out billions in investor value and annihilated both thousands of jobs and still-untold life savings.
Three bidders fought over the placemat-size still life, which depicts several golden-hued apples stacked on a white plate near some smaller, green fruit.
The dual-core A5 chip delivers responsive graphics and a fast, fluid Multi-Touch experience, while still providing all-day battery life.
The still-not-publisher of Half-Life 3 is of course no stranger to furious speculation about its intentions.
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Still, enthusiasm about the health of the region's banks should be tempered by the fact that many are still on government-backed life support and that the next few years are likely to be tough.
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Even in this high-tech era of amazing medical tools--MRI scanners that can see deep inside the body, gamma-ray beams harnessed to zap tumors, implantable defibrillators that shock the heart to keep it pumping--surgeons still wield an old-fashioned blade to take life into their hands.
We also include less weighty, but still important quality-of-life issues like commute times and weather.
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Older Germans still prefer bonds, life-insurance policies and property to equities.
Everywhere you turn, the alarm sounds that work-life balance still poses challenges, especially for ambitious women (see here and here, for just two examples).
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The U.S. reported stronger than expected retail sales last week, proving the country still has signs of life post-QE2.
The still life depicts a blue-and-white vase holding a tight bouquet of yellow flowers atop a tablecloth of deep blue and pink.
You wouldn't draft a letter or sketch a still life with an ink-stained finger, but that's what writing or drawing on a tablet amounts to without the proper tool.
The top-tier investment banks have one talent that still commands huge fees: their brilliance at the life-or-death deal, such as a hostile takeover, a landmark privatisation or a public offering.
This gives them no incentive, for example, to make massive shifts from their still-bloated military-industrial sector to improve their citizens' quality of life.
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While the long-term consequences of living a pulseless life are still under debate, Frazier's group is hoping to move forward with development -- and apparently challenge medical personnel everywhere to find a new way to monitor those vital signs.
Their emergency had been categorised as serious, but not life threatening - but still requiring a 30-minute response, in normal circumstances.
Nevertheless, many airlines say there is still plenty of life left in seat-back screens, especially as they grow larger and more sophisticated.
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Ms Block struggles to explain how she can be satisfied with her husband, yet still want another person in her life - and her bed.
And this could play a crucial role in evaluating the still-controversial evidence for the existence of life on Mars a planet that, in astronomical terms, is a mere stone's throw away.
"The midwives from the unit are still operating in the community - for the life of me I can't understand why they can't deliver in the fantastic unit, " she said.
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