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	Close vowel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A close vowel is a type of vowel sound used in many spoken languages.
		The defining characteristic of a close vowel is that the tongue is positioned as close as possible to the roof of the mouth without creating a constriction that would be classified as a consonant.
		Close vowels are often referred to as high vowels because the tongue is positioned high in the mouth during the articulation of a close vowel.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Close_vowel (160 words)

	CLOSE - Definition
		Closes surrounded by the venerable abodes of deans and canons.
		{Close vowel} (Pron.), a vowel which is pronounced with a diminished aperture of the lips, or with contraction of the cavity of the mouth.
		{Close to the wind} (Naut.), directed as nearly to the point from which the wind blows as it is possible to sail; closehauled; -- said of a vessel.
	www.hyperdictionary.com /dictionary/close (1366 words)

	Glenn Close - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		She was born into a society family and attended Choate Rosemary Hall, an elite boarding school in Connecticut, and the College of William and Mary, becoming a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society.
		Her paternal grandfather, Edward Bennett Close, a stockbroker, was first married to Post Cereals' heiress Marjorie Merriweather Post, which makes Glenn Close a relative by marriage and/or blood to screenwriter/director Preston Sturges and actress Dina Merrill.
		Close is remembered for her chilling roles as the scheming aristocrat Madame de Merteuil in Dangerous Liaisons and as the psychotic book editor Alex in Fatal Attraction.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Glenn_Close (465 words)

	Museum of Contemporary Art - Past Exhibitions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Best known for his colossal portraits of human faces, Close refers to these paintings, drawings, and prints as "heads," perhaps declaring that his work is more about working processes than the identity of his models.
		After his Polaroid collage self-portrait of 1979, the grid structure Close used in his painting remained exposed, and the mark of the brush, or rather the substance of paint, was no longer concealed.
		By the mid 1980s Close's paintings were about the very art of painting; however he remains far removed from what could remotely be considered "gestural." He does, however, find a parallel with the dynamic effect that gestural painting achieves.
	www.mcachicago.org /MCA/exhibit/past/Close (724 words)

	ArtsNet Minnesota: Identity: Chuck Close
		Chuck Close is associated with the style of painting called Photorealism or Superrealism.
		To make this work, Close took several photographs of himself in which his head and neck filled the frame.
		When Close was making his painting he was concerned with the visual elements--shapes, textures, volume, shadows, and highlights--of the photograph itself.
	www.artsconnected.org /artsnetmn/identity/close.html (570 words)

	Artzar - Chuck Close Interview - Introduction
		In 1967 Close found his own style in Big Self-Portrait, a large, fl and white photorealistic painting, followed by like portraits of other people who were part of Close's own world: friends, like composer Philip Glass and artist Richard Serra, and family members.
		In the late 1970s, Close found color again and over the decades has put the spectrum through one transformation after another - color dots, large and small, small dots within large, three colors combined to make all colors (the red-blue-yellow used in color printing), and countless colors combined to make countless others.
		Close starts with a photo, covers it with a grid, transfers the grid, enlarged to scale, onto the big blank canvas, and then starts in one corner, applying paint to the squares, repeating the process in pass after pass from different angles.
	www.artzar.com /content/close (554 words)

	close. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		To engage at close quarters: closed with the enemy.
		close to the wind Nautical At a close angle into the direction from which the wind is blowing: sailing close to the wind.
		close, immediate, near, nearby, nigh, proximate These adjectives mean not far from another in space, time, or relationship: an airport close to town; her immediate family; his nearest relative; a nearby library; our nighest neighbor; the proximate neighborhood.
	www.bartleby.com /61/53/C0415300.html (623 words)

	close
		It is unspecified whether closing the master side of the pseudo-terminal flushes all queued input and output.
		If this is the last close of a shared memory object or a memory mapped file and the close results in the memory object becoming unreferenced, and the memory object has been unlinked, then the memory object shall be removed.
		The use of interruptible device close routines should be discouraged to avoid problems with the implicit closes of file descriptors by exec and exit().
	www.opengroup.org /onlinepubs/009695399/functions/close.html (1175 words)

	Close Up Foundation Civics Education \| About the Foundation
		Close Up's mission is built on the belief that textbooks and lectures alone are not enough to help students understand the democratic process and make it work.
		Close Up’s national, state, and local experiential government studies programs strengthen participants’ knowledge of how the political process works, increase their awareness of major national and international issues, and motivate them to become actively involved in the world around them.
		Consider coming to Washington with Close Up, speaking to students at a community-based program, volunteering your time in a local service-learning project, sharing your expertise with a group of middle school students, or serving as a mentor for a recently immigrated high school student.
	www.closeup.org /aboutcuf.htm (424 words)

	Sexy Women Celebrities - Glenn Close
		Close, a critically-acclaimed, strong featured and coolly aristocratic blonde began her career in 1974 with New York's Phoenix Theatre Company and her film careerwhen director George Roy Hill spotted her in the Broadway musical Barnum and signed her for The World According to Garp (1982).
		Later that same year, Close won an Emmy for her strong interpretation of Col. Magarethe Cammermeyer, who sued the military after being discharged for admitting her homosexuality, in Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story, an NBC telefilm which she also co-produced with Barbara Streisand.
		Close and her co-star Christopher Walken followed up on this small screen triumph two years later with a sequel entitled Skylark (1993).
	www.kcweb.com /super/g_close.htm (366 words)

	Chuck Close - Worcester Art Museum - Absolutearts.com
		Inspired by Close's keen interest in ancient floor mosaics, this show is the first to explore the relationship between his work and mosaics of the past, and coincides with the Museum's landmark exhibition, Antioch: The Lost Ancient City.
		Close's monumental portraits-or heads as he prefers to call them-are often intensely personal images of friends and family, distinguished by a degree of detachment that seems to border on the impersonal.
		According to Stoops: In both Close's works and the Antioch mosaics there is a tension between the realism of the subjects depicted and the inherently flat, two dimensionality of the individual units used to construct an image-painted grids in Close's works and pieces of stone and glass (tesserae) in the mosaics.
	www.absolutearts.com /artsnews/2000/12/30/27885.html (940 words)

	CLHS: Function CLOSE
		Closing a stream means that it may no longer be used in input or output operations.
		The act of closing a file stream ends the association between the stream and its associated file; the transaction with the file system is terminated, and input/output may no longer be performed on the stream.
		After stream is closed, it is still possible to perform the following query operations upon it: streamp, pathname, truename, merge-pathnames, pathname-host, pathname-device, pathname-directory,pathname-name, pathname-type, pathname-version, namestring, file-namestring, directory-namestring, host-namestring, enough-namestring, open, probe-file, and directory.
	www.lispworks.com /documentation/HyperSpec/Body/f_close.htm (249 words)

	man close (2)
		close closes a file descriptor, so that it no longer refers to any file and may be reused.
		Any locks held on the file it was associated with, and owned by the process, are removed (regardless of the file descriptor that was used to obtain the lock).
		If fd is the last copy of a particular file descriptor the resources associated with it are freed; if the descriptor was the last reference to a file which has been removed using unlink(2) the file is deleted.
	linux.com.hk /man/showman.cgi?manpath=/man/man2/close.2.inc (237 words)

	The Daily Princetonian - Renowned artist Close visits 185 Nassau Street
		Calling Close a "civic, generous man" and commending his "extraordinary virtuosity," Grafton set the tone of the lecture Close gave during his visit to campus last Thursday as this fall's Belknap Visitor in the Humanities.
		The size of Close's paintings is usually so big that, as he puts it, "at a comfortable distance you can't see the whole thing." Thus "the Chuck Close dance" was created — gallery jargon for the movement of crowds at a Chuck Close exhibit.
		Close's prints will be the subject of a retrospective at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York that will run from Jan. 13 to April 18, 2004.
	www.dailyprincetonian.com /archives/2003/10/13/news/8815.shtml (994 words)

	GLENN CLOSE at THESPIAN NET (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Close recalls the experience with mixed emotion but maintains that her childhood was a happy one.
		It was here that Close dove into theatre work and began to pursue her lifelong goal of becoming an actress.
		In 1996 Close got to fulfill a dream by playing Disney's most notorious villain, Cruella DeVil, in the live-action remake of 101 Dalmations, a role she reprised in 2000 with the film's sequel, 102 Dalmations.
	www.thespiannet.com /actresses/C/close_glenn/index.shtml (529 words)

	Chuck Close Online
		Chuck Close at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
		Close Encounters: Throughout his career, Chuck Close has focused on faces.
		All images and text on this Chuck Close page are copyright 1999-2005 by John Malyon/Artcyclopedia, unless otherwise noted.
	www.artcyclopedia.com /artists/close_chuck.html (445 words)

	Chuck Close (1940 - ) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
		In the 1920’s, Close began to emulate his style, copying the tiniest of details from portrait photographs and applying them to his canvasses.
		Katharina Sieverding: Close Up focuses on the cinematic aspect of Sieverding's photographic work, notably her large-scale self-portraits, which compose a significant portion of her oeuvre.
		Close Encounters of the Art Kind is devised by the innovative curator/artist, Colin Painter.
	www.wwar.com /masters/c/close-chuck.html (1259 words)

	Chuck Close: Links to Every Work Viewable on the Internet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Chuck Close (born 1940) is an American photorealist specializing in close-up portraits and self-portraits.
		Close is one of the very few modern realists or photorealists who focus on the human face.
		In 1988, in mid-career, Close was paralyzed due to a blood clot in his spinal column.
	www.safran-arts.com /links/close.html (109 words)

	Unix Manual Page for close (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		If close() is interrupted by a signal that is to be caught, it will return -1 with errno set to EINTR and the state of fildes is unspecified.
		If the link count of the file is 0, when all file descrip- tors associated with the file are closed, the space occupied by the file will be freed and the file will no longer be accessible.
		If a STREAMS-based (see intro(2)) fildes is closed and the calling process was previously registered to receive a SIG- POLL signal (see signal(3C)) for events associated with that STREAM (see I_SETSIG in streamio(7I)), the calling process will be unregistered for events associated with the STREAM.
	www.scit.wlv.ac.uk /cgi-bin/mansec?2+close (648 words)

	CHUCK CLOSE b (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Close took this byproduct of dry chips back to the painting studio where the original collage of Georgia (1984, Collection of Chuck Close) was created.
		From the collage of Georgia, a tracing was made, and Close asked Wilfer to construct a brass shim template, an oversized "cookie cutter," that could be used to repeat the image as an edition.
		The portrait Georgia, Close's daughter, assaults the viewer with its imposing scale and texture, but also poses a paradox because of the sensitive familial intimacy with which the portrait was nurtured.
	www.butlerart.com /pc_book/pages/chuck_close_b.htm (435 words)

	Glenn Close - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Glenn Close (born March 19, 1947) is an American film and stage actress.
		She was born into a society family in Greenwich, Connecticut, and attended the College of William and Mary, becoming a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society.
		She also is a distant cousin of the actress and model Brooke Shields.
	encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /glenn_close.htm (282 words)

	Chuck Close, Part One (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		His father, a sheet metal worker, plumber and on-the-side inventor, was always in ill health and moved the family from Monroe to Everett to Tacoma to Everett in search of civil service jobs with health benefits.
		And Close, an only child, spent most of the year in bed with nephritis, a nasty kidney infection.
		On Dec. 7, 1988, at the age of 49, Close was at the height of his career as a portrait painter when he was stricken with a spinal blood clot that left him a quadriplegic.
	www.washington.edu /alumni/columns/june97/close1.html (499 words)

	MoMA.org \| Exhibitions \| 1998 \| Chuck Close
		His most recent pictures synthesize Close's long-standing interest in the spontaneous manner of the Abstract Expressionists with his strict adherence to the self-imposed rules that have guided his art from the beginning.
		Close's sitters are consistently posed in a manner that allows only the subtlest of individual inflections.
		Close chooses his subjects from among his family and friends--including artists such as Richard Serra, Cindy Sherman, Alex Katz, Roy Lichtenstein, and Robert Rauschenberg--to create works that range from coolly unemotional likenesses of unidentified individuals to psychologically charged glimpses of well-known members of the contemporary art world.
	www.moma.org /exhibitions/1998/close (490 words)

	Merriam-Webster Online
		a view> e : to suspend or stop the operations of school> -- often used with down
		2 a : to draw near closing with the island> b : to engage in a struggle at close quarters :
		may imply a formal closing (as of a meeting) .
	www.m-w.com /cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=close (505 words)

	RandomAccessFile (Java 2 Platform SE v1.4.2)
		Closes this random access file stream and releases any system resources associated with the stream.
		In this case, the contents of the extended portion of the file are not defined.
		A closed random access file cannot perform input or output operations and cannot be reopened.
	java.sun.com /j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/java/io/RandomAccessFile.html (3047 words)

	close
		If the link count of the file is 0, when all file descriptors associated with the file are closed, the space occupied by the file will be freed and the file will no longer be accessible.
		If a memory object remains referenced at the last close (that is, a process has it mapped), then the entire contents of the memory object persist until the memory object becomes unreferenced.
		If this is the last close of a memory object and the close results in the memory object becoming unreferenced, and the memory object has been unlinked, then the memory object will be removed.
	www.opengroup.org /onlinepubs/007908799/xsh/close.html (707 words)

	PHP: mysql_close - Manual (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		closes the non-persistent connection to the MySQL server that's associated with the specified link identifier.
		If that would be closed by mysql_close(), it will also (obviously) close the other connection, since the link is the same.
		Had lot of trouble figuring it out, since in <=4.3.6 there was a bug which didn't close the connection, but after the patch to >=4.3.7, all my application broke down because of a single script that did this.
	us2.php.net /mysql_close (391 words)

	Close
		In general, close is an action performed to terminate a portion of a program or the complete program.
		When referring to a button or a feature in a GUI operating system, the close button allows a user to terminate a window within a program or the complete program.
		In the past and sometimes in the present close is used as another name for minimize.
	www.computerhope.com /jargon/c/close.htm (200 words)

	Close Packed Structures
		The symmetry is exactly the same regardless of the choice, however, when a third layer is added it now has a choice of packing over the spheres in the original layer or over the sites marked as c in the diagram of the first layer.
		Now that we are familiar with cubic and hexagonal close packing, let us turn to their crystallographic descriptions.
		Cubic close packing leads to a structure with a face centered cubic unit cell as shown below.
	www.chemistry.ohio-state.edu /~woodward/ch754/str_cp.htm (1091 words)

	Julie Fortune: Fanfic for the Fearless! ... The Pretender: Close (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		She closed her eyes and remembered the cool white skin of that girl's arm, and the pale, cloudy eyes staring up at nothing...
		He closed his eyes and savored that image, lost in the smell of blood and perfume, and so he missed the quick knock on the door.
		Jarod closed his eyes and fought his way back out of the clinging fl depths of the Sim, back up that fragile lifeline to what he thought was his true self.
	home.comcast.net /~juliefortune/Pretender/close.htm (9537 words)

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