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  Art in America: The forensic eye: the latest work from Sally Mann, shown recently at the Corcoran Gallery, uses mostly ...
Mann reports that she was looking for something uplifting to complete this body of work and returned to her children as a means of looking to the future.
Mann connects her fascination with death to the southern landscape, where memories of the Civil War and its legacy of defeat have created a culture of yearning, pain and obsession with loss.
Mann likes to quote from Wallace Stevens's great poetic meditation on mortality, "Sunday Morning." In that poem, Stevens calls death "the mother of beauty" and emphasizes how it is life's fragility and transience which give it value.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1248/is_1_93/ai_n8590990/pg_2   (1606 words)

  
 Film & TV: Heat, Smoke And Fire (Newcity Chicago . 11-08-99)
Michael Mann's bravura accomplishment is to take seemingly abstruse issues and forge them into a sensual and stirring, heart-pounding thriller, relentlessly innovative style, yet never less than fundamentally human.
Mann uses variable camera speeds, telephoto compositions, shimmering light, off-kilter edits, and negative space (the use of emptiness in the widescreen frame for emotional impact).
Mann gives us images now: a man behind a blindfold in a car's back seat, driven along a Middle Eastern highway, lined with soldiers, many puffing cigarettes.
weeklywire.com /ww/11-08-99/chicago_filmfeat.html   (770 words)

  
 X-Project: The Lady In Black
According to Mary Jo Mann, a Henderson graduate and local historian, the reason Joshua was given such a hard time by his friends was probably because Jane was highly religious and wasn't the outgoing type.
Welch also added that when she and a group of friends were walking back to the girls dorm around midnight on homecoming of last year, she saw a faint figure dressed in fl exiting the building.
Mann said that the sightings are rare because the timing of the ghost is only on one night a year: homecoming.
www.xprojectmagazine.com /archives/paranormal/ladynblack.html   (941 words)

  
 N.Paradoxa : Issue 7
That Mann's introduction somehow mirrors her photographs, and that her photographs are metonymically constructed out of the psychic debris of personal histories, visual remnants, 'individual' fantasies and cultural memories, further situates her imagery within the psycho-analytical paradigm which stresses association and misrecognition and where the familiar becomes unfamiliar and potentially disturbing.
Sally Mann's photographs contain a dual perception of 'beauty and sadness', as she states "of innocence and sexuality, youth (life) and death, as I claim".
Mann expresses the contradictions that are inherited from a romantic myth that positions children as sexless and childhood as eternal.
web.ukonline.co.uk /n.paradoxa/fletch.htm   (4039 words)

  
 Art in America: Photography degree zero - Sally Mann, Aaron Rose, Edwynn Houk Gallery, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, ...
Sally Mann juxtaposed two distinct but related sequences of fl-and-white photographs in her show, which bore the overall title "Mother Land." One sequence, a dozen-odd photographs, was shot on or near ancestral farmlands in Virginia.
By this analogy, Mann's new pictures mourn the end of that phase of her life and work when her subject matter was her children and she took the startling photographs of the "Immediate Family" series.
Mann's pictures themselves seem rescued remnants, at once antebellum and up to the minute, and they amount to a crossroads in her own development.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1248/is_n1_v86/ai_20148118   (1407 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Mann (1904-1980) was a superb speaker, who combined an air of complete frankness with an almost weary gratitude for her 1939 "discovery" that there existed something in the world called "alcoholism," that it was "an illness," and that she herself was "an alcoholic."
Mann's BB story suggests, of course, that she was familiar with Seabrook's book--even familiar enough with the treatment he received to have wished to enter the same establishment for her own troubled condition.
Mann frequently cited Dr. Tiebout by name in her talks, but she drew a veil of discretion across mention of the famous Dr.
www.roizen.com /ron/rr7.htm   (1862 words)

  
 The National Insecurity State
Mann refers to Wolfowitz as "the leading conservative foreign policy thinker of his generation." But with the country reeling, his immediate reflex was to strike a Churchillian pose, revealing his psychological, or perhaps ideological, fixations.
What Mann shows, however, is that Wolfowitz himself was obsessed with Gulf oil and WMDs in the Middle East long before he revealed any humanitarian concern for the victims of tyranny in the region, much less any ambitions to implant American-style democracy in Mesopotamia.
Mann seems to think that Cheney, Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz have introduced "broad, enduring changes in the underlying principles guiding American foreign policy." But the bulk of his book makes the opposite point, namely, that this Administration has managed foreign affairs so ineptly because it has been reflexively implementing out-of-date formulas in a changed security environment.
www.thenation.com /docprint.mhtml?i=20040510&s=holmes   (3286 words)

  
 Sousveillance - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sousveillance (pronounced "Sou Veil Lance") refers both to inverse surveillance, as well as to the recording of an activity from the perspective of a participant in the activity (i.e.
Inverse surveillance, sometimes known by the neologism "hierarchical sousveillance" ("seeing from below" hierarchically), refers to the recording or monitoring of real or apparent authority figures by others, particularly those who are generally the subject of surveillance.
Steve Mann, who coined the term, describes it as "watchful vigilance from underneath".
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sousveillance   (1879 words)

  
 Earth's meteoric veil (2)
Forces emanate from the solar heart or center and reach the meteoric veils encircling the earth, and arouse electromagnetic currents, producing thus a part of the meteorological phenomena which we experience in storms and fair weather and rain and snow and ice.
They are surrounded each one with its own veil of meteoric or kosmic dust: each one veils her face, or his face.
It acts as a veil protecting us from the terrific energy of the sun, acting not merely as a veil of protection against his rays alone, but also against other accidents that might happen to us were there no such protecting veil surrounding our globe in thick folds.
ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/dp5/dust2.htm   (7836 words)

  
 North Gate News Online :: Erotic Revelers Soldier On
A thickset man with cropped fl hair, a goatee and a gruff voice, Mann bounced around the party in a T-shirt and fl jeans, a large red, white and blue boa draped around his neck.
Mann waited outside at the end of a red carpet, while some 40 people in various states of undress gathered in the lobby.
She said she wouldn't be donning the patriotic uniform for the ball because she wore it last year.
journalism.berkeley.edu /ngno/stories/000403.html   (853 words)

  
 Mae Madden - Chapter VII.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
A heavily-figured white lace veil was pulled low over her brow, and fell in folds against her cheeks.
Mann," before she threw the rest to the winds and the passing gallants.
The veiled lady appeared to summon several of her friends, for a number of gentlemen left the other window and its group of girls, and began the difficult task of attempting to toss the bouquets from their height down to Mae.
www.worldwideschool.org /library/books/lit/drama/MaeMadden/chap7.html   (3133 words)

  
 Climate Change 2001: The Scientific Basis   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Also shown are the instrumental record (thick red line) and a reconstruction of temperatures from proxy records (crosses, from Mann et al., 1998).
The size of both the forcings and the proxy temperature variations are subject to large uncertainties.
Note that the Mann temperatures do not include data after 1980 and do not show the large observed warming then.
www.pnl.gov /aisu/pubs/eemw/papers/ipccreports/workinggroup1/fig12-6.htm   (160 words)

  
 Beekeeping Supplies - Mann Lake Ltd. - Online Catalog - Page 1   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Veil with elastic has a long string coming out in the back and a loop in the front.
Similar to round veil except Alexander veil has cloth top and is to be used without a helmet.
Veils are made from a tough polyester material which never rusts.
www.mannlakeltd.com /catalog/page63.htm   (185 words)

  
 Booklist: Kurzke, Hermann. Thomas Mann.
But the conception that unifies the biography is that of Mann’s life itself as an imaginative creation, a work artistically conceived and executed like each of his novels.
In devising the artistry of his life, Mann created a structure capacious enough to contain even the eruptions of Germany’s tempestuous twenthieth-century history, capacious enough to permit an aesthetic interest in the character of “Brother Hitler,” whose loathsome politics forced Mann into exile.
In exploring Mann’s living artistry, Kurzke deftly teases out hidden connections—between Mann’s egotistic narcissism and his aesthetic independence, for instance, and between his antifascist politics and his patriarchal Protestant religion.
archive.ala.org /booklist/v99/se1/24kurzke.html   (218 words)

  
 The Belltower, Samford University
“To veil a woman means to remove her from the public space and therefore to protect the public space and the man from her perverse, destructive nature,” Cherif said.
Cherif noted that although the head veil did exist in early Muslim culture, it also was worn in Greek and Christian cultures and, as in those cultures, was a mark of social distinction.
"The veil itself is a political weapon,” Cherif said, pointing out the distinction between Islam (the religion) and Islamism (a modern political movement that uses religion as the means to a conservative political end.) The Islamists, she said, “have media, laws, bombs and the veil” with which to manipulate Muslim culture.
www.samford.edu /pubs/belltower/Nov2004/cherif.html   (904 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Travel - News - Yearlong celebration marks man's first powered flight   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
KILL DEVIL HILLS, N.C. — Amelia Earhart stood by Orville Wright on Dec. 17, 1928, as a silky veil was drawn from a chunk of granite that marked the spot of mankind's first powered flight.
Both he and Mann are past presidents of the First Flight Society, an institution almost as old as powered flight.
The social group was founded by Outer Banks families who have held mostly quiet yearly remembrances of the first flight and the locals who helped the Wright brothers with their experiments.
www.usatoday.com /travel/news/features/2002/2002-12-17-first-flight.htm   (1183 words)

  
 Aljazeera.Net - French report wants religious symbols banned   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
A Sikh French MP, Simranjit Singh Mann, has voiced his concerns over a possible French law that would require them to cut their hair and remove their turbans.
Mann, currently in Paris as part of his month-long European and American tour, said he would raise the issue with Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee and France's ambassador to India.
The letter will support the views of some politicians and schoolteachers who claim certain clothing is being used as an aggressive symbol of religious identity.
english.aljazeera.net /NR/exeres/47FF05A2-E892-4650-859A-608F640EBB1F.htm   (675 words)

  
 David Lethbridge Criminally Charged with Libel - David Icke - News Room   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Wes Mann, organizer of the Festival of the Ages, has also filed an identical charge against Mr.
Mr.Wes Mann states that he has been attacked several times in the past by Mr.
Mann states that neighbours have appeared on his property accusing him of being a racist and other names as a result of Mr.
www.davidicke.net /newsroom/america/canada/062301a.html   (496 words)

  
 1941 Alleged UFO Crash Retrieval and the Missouri Institute of Aeronautics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The abstract tells of an interview with Charlette Mann and references two signed affidavits that support Ms.
Mann's recollections about a UFO crash in rural SEMO (Southeast Missouri).
A veil of secrecy surrounded the circumstances of the UFO event.
www.seekingmoinfo.com   (1508 words)

  
 Mann Lake Limited - Product Updates Main
Mann Lake’s comfortable lightweight Deluxe Bee Suit is constructed of 50% cotton / 50% polyester blend for extra strength and durability.
Comes with an attached square folding zipper veil.
Most durable square folding veil on the market.
www.mannlakeltd.com /news/products_main.htm   (507 words)

  
 Montgomery Living Magazine
Meredith Anne Mayes and Phillip Morgan Mann were married on March 27 at five o’clock in the afternoon at Westminster Presbyterian Church in Montgomery.
Phillip Royce Mann of Tuscaloosa, and the grandson of the late Mr.
Bridesmaids were Emily Mann McCollum, sister of the groom, Jill Granberry Gregory, Ann Albrecht Shonk, Miriam Headley Scharf, Amanda Forrest Fulford and Kristin Holman Taylor.
www.montgomeryliving.com /currentissue/page15.asp   (285 words)

  
 V
Thomas Veil is overwhelmed with his situation and questions his sanity.
After learning the doctors are part of the mysterious plan he escapes to preserve his life.
Veil is all alone, with no option but to begin a desperate, dangerous quest to find out how and why this happened along with discovering who is behind this horrid scheme.
www.scifi2k.com /nowhereman/nowhere.html   (328 words)

  
 Best Music Poll 2k5   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Juliana Hatfield may never fully live down the bubblegrunge image she acquired in the '90s with songs like "Spin the Bottle" and "My Sister" and unfortunate quips about women guitar players.
That's not to suggest Hatfield is the next Aimee Mann, only that as a singer-songwriter, she's been maturing in leaps and bounds over the past decade.
These days, she shoots more from the hip, sings more from her heart, and records in whatever setting she desires: no more trying to keep up with the latest alterna-trend.
www.bestmusicpoll.com /lsinger.asp   (229 words)

  
 VDARE.com: 11/10/03 - Under The Red Cover: Congress Can Find Truth About 1986 Amnesty Fraud—And Cover-Up
The answer lies beneath a veil of confidentiality supposedly designed to protect the 3 million illegal alien amnesty applicants from deportation while they applied for green cards under the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA).
Of course, the confidentiality that so nobly protects illegal alien “privacy” also enables the federal immigration bureaucracy to evade revealing how many of the 2.7 million successful applicants were given amnesty despite being suspected of fraud.
Juan Mann [send him email] is a lawyer and the proprietor of DeportAliens.com.
www.vdare.com /mann/find_truth.htm   (685 words)

  
 FBI's No. 2 Was 'Deep Throat'
Recently, an investigative-reporting class at the University of Illinois compiled what professor Bill Gaines believed to be a definitive case that Deep Throat was the deputy White House counsel, Fred F. Fielding.
Perhaps the most insightful argument was mustered in the Atlantic magazine by journalist James Mann in 1992.
"He could well have been Mark Felt," Mann wrote cautiously in a piece that laid bare the institutional reasons why FBI loyalists came to fear and resent Nixon's presidency.
www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/31/AR2005053100655_pf.html   (2300 words)

  
 The Election of Mann - Introduction
That God has purposed to have a race of humans completely different from all that has issued forth through the genealogy of fallen Adam, is an accepted conclusion among those who are a part of that remnant out of which this new race is to be chosen.
It is also the understanding among most of these same ones, that none shall come into such a renovated, renewed state of being in the New Creation, which is Christ, with their "veil" -- that is, with their reasoning mind, still intact.
Many among the ranks of believers still suppose that the reasoning mind is God-given and should therefore be included and used even in holy matters.
www.sigler.org /shofar/emintro.htm   (1151 words)

  
 Annihilation Of Mind
Mann mailaa sach nirmala kiyu kari miliaa jaae
Jichar ih mann laharee vich hai hayumai bahut ahankaar
Satsangti saadh paaee vadbhaagee mann chalto bhaio aroorho....
www.gurbani.org /webart16.htm   (4364 words)

  
 Superstars or Scoundrels? [Fool.com: Commentary] October 3, 2005
The announcement came simultaneous to management reporting a pair of one-time benefits: a $1.5 million gain on the reversal of a legal matter and potential rewards from the rapid rise in Katrina-related orders for manufactured homes and RVs by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).
Put the three news stories together, and outside investors were right to wonder if management and the board were using temporary good news as a veil to their major stock sale.
Tom and Bill are offering a special 30-day free trial to Hidden Gems, which includes full access to the more than 50 small-cap stock recommendations to date.
www.fool.com /news/commentary/2005/commentary05100307.htm?source=ihghlpban100102   (1533 words)

  
 Absolute Bisque Dolls pg. 2 at Mary's Spider's Web   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
#01368 1985 cSeymour Mann LITTLE MISS MAY She is wearing an emerald on gold necklace and her dress is green print.
Satin and lace wedding dress with veil, pearl necklace, nosegay, dove, lace hemmed pantaloons, white socks and white soft leather shoes.
Her dress is striped aquamarine with lace and she has pantaloons and white leather shoes.
www.marysspidersweb.com /Page72.html   (961 words)

  
 Spirituality & Health: Movie Review: All Quiet on the Western Front   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
War is the ultimate doublecrosser; it takes away human dignity, freedom, brotherhood, meaning, and gives nothing back in return.
Delbert Mann directs a large cast including Richard Thomas, Ernest Borgnine, Ian Holm, Donald Pleasence, and Patricia Neal.
This is the second film version of Remarque's novel; the first was done in 1930.
www.spiritualityhealth.com /newsh/items/moviereview/item_7465.html   (308 words)

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