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  Ambrose Bierce : The Hypnotist
A disagreeable feature of this otherwise satisfactory condition of things was the necessary secrecy: the transfer of the luncheon, for example, had to be made at some distance from the madding crowd, in a wood; and I blush to think of the many other unworthy subterfuges entailed by the situation.
They had hitched their team and were eating luncheon under an oak tree in the center of the field.
Grass and pebbles were torn from the soil by hands and feet; clothing, hair, faces inexpressibly defiled with dust and blood.
www.classicreader.com /read.php/sid.6/bookid.2055   (1432 words)

  
 Luncheon on the Grass, Helsinki, 2004 - Luncheon on the Barge Project   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Luncheon on the Grass, Helsinki, 2004 - Luncheon on the Barge Project
Project Luncheon on The Grass: Conversation Project #1 was being held in Babakan Siliwangi City Park, Bandung, Indonesia, inviting four random participants to lunch together in open space while conversing on Bandung in personal context and their relation in social spaces.
The final presentation of this project will be the simultaneous display of both of the recorded conversation session in audio, slides and video.
commonroom.info /bcfnma/futuresonic2006/image/2006/08/luncheon-on-grass-helsinki-2004.html   (162 words)

  
 Chapter Chapter 34 of The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
One morning, on her return from her drive, some half-hour before luncheon, she quitted her vehicle in the court of the palace and, instead of ascending the great staircase, crossed the court, passed beneath another archway and entered the garden.
Ralph was sitting there in a clear gloom, at the base of a statue of Terpsichore—a dancing nymph with taper fingers and inflated draperies in the manner of Bernini; the extreme relaxation of his attitude suggested at first to Isabel that he was asleep.
Her light footstep on the grass had not roused him, and before turning away she stood for a moment looking at him.
www.bibliomania.com /0/0/28/2395/27525/1.html   (572 words)

  
 luncheon - Search Results - MSN Encarta
The unfinished Luncheon on the Grass, a picnic scene begun in 1865, was originally intended to...
She was one of those indispensables of whom one makes the discovery, when they are gone, that one can get on quite as well without them.
Etiquette : quotations: Etiquette: Gentlemen do not take soup at luncheon.
encarta.msn.com /luncheon.html   (106 words)

  
 D Weddings   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Fresh grass overlays a silk satin couture cloth from BBJ linens.
Hand places poppies, tulips and rinuncula or red berries (depending on the season) at your plate and silverware, and sprouts flowers from the ground next to chairs.
For the chuppa, Hand created tiebacks of four different kinds of ivy, spray roses and roses in big, loose bunches for an unstructured feel.
www.dallasweddingbook.com /tables3.asp   (154 words)

  
 Small Business Administration - Minneapolis
The CLC SBDC grant exemplifies Blum’s grass roots approach and acumen to bring in partners to further spread small business growth.
The grant will be matched dollar-for-dollar with state and federal funds and thus generate a total of $500,000 for small business development.
Blum will be honored at an awards luncheon on Friday, May 5, 2006, at the Northland Inn in Brooklyn Park.
www.sbaonline.sba.gov /mn/MN_SS_ALEXANDRABLUM.html   (451 words)

  
 Complex City : Better Comics (c) 2002 : Complex City
I'm happy to report that, in the years since the luncheon, I've remained friends with both Jerry and Roy, and we still swap the occasional e-mail (in fact, Roy paid me one of the best complements I've ever gotten when he told me he thought that Bulletproof was "better-written than many pro comics"!).
Unfortunately, Howard, who was fighting illness even at the time of the luncheon, and walked with a cane, passed away about a year after the fandom luncheon, and is sorely missed today.
The eternally-young Grass Green, happily, is still alive and kicking, and in fact is gearing up to relaunch his classic Xal-Kor character in an all-new trilogy.
www.bettercomics.com /cc/conventions/conpast_fandom_reunion_luncheon.htm   (1415 words)

  
 Four Elements: Daniel Bouthot and Christopher Ho
Luncheon on the Grass acknowledges the ephemeral nature of life itself.
Although this recreation of a picnic blanket is playful, in the context of a cemetery a rectangle of patterned grass inevitably acquires weightier connotations.
After the initial planting, the new grass will gradually blend back into the pre-existing landscape; over the course of the exhibition, the natural environment will reclaim the installation.
www.foresthillstrust.org /elements/bouthot.html   (173 words)

  
 (washingtonpost.com)
WASHINGTON (AP) -- From chants of "Lets go, Nats!" at a VIP luncheon to the excitement of former Washington Senators players to the anticipation surrounding President Bush's ceremonial first pitch, the nation's capital welcomed the return of major league baseball with an all-day party.
Mowers trimmed the grass, and workmen were hoping to find a way to get rid of the faint white lines still visible from a Major League Soccer game last week.
Perhaps the biggest surprise is that the Nationals arrived as a first-place team, having won two out of three against the Atlanta Braves to improve to 5-4 in the NL East.
www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A53573-2005Apr14.html   (800 words)

  
 Luncheon on the Grass, 2003 - Luncheon on the Barge Project   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Luncheon on the Grass, 2003 - Luncheon on the Barge Project
Our first Luncheon on the Grass Project at Babakan Siliwangi City Park in 2003.
Four random participants were invited to join lunch organized by Bandung Center for New Media Arts and informally discussing the current daily situation in Bandung city.
commonroom.info /bcfnma/futuresonic2006/image/2006/07/luncheon-on-grass-2003.html   (145 words)

  
 Martina Weber: Curatorial Statement - Digitaler Dachstock #2
One part of this is that the theme of gender offensively dealt with in "luncheon on the grass" unobtrusively and indirectly changes the perception of the Tell figure; in hindsight a new light is shed on the labored masculinity of Altdorf's landmark.
An attractive formal association is also given by the language mix of French, Italian and English that characterizes both videos: Mastroianni plays an Italian painter conversing in French with his interlocutor played by Jeanne Moreau, while the subtitles are held in English language.
In "luncheon on the grass" an English title designates a French masterpiece, while the soundtrack accompanies the video with Pavarotti's Italian heroic tenor.
www.code-flow.net /events/digitaler-dachstock-2-uri-20060817/review-villoe-huszai-clickhere-en.html   (996 words)

  
 The Luncheon on the Grass - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Luncheon on the Grass (Le déjeuner sur l'herbe), originally titled The Bath (Le Bain), is an oil on canvas painting by Édouard Manet.
In the foreground, three characters are seated on the grass: a naked woman and two men dressed like dandies.
The woman, whose body is starkly lit, looks frankly in the direction of the viewer.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Luncheon_on_the_Grass   (481 words)

  
 The Grass Ceiling (TM) - Business and Professional Women
You and your colleagues are standing on freshly cut grass instead of sitting around a conference table.
No papers and folders littering your meeting space, only sand traps and tall sticks bearing numbered flags are visible...this meeting is taking place on a golf course.
The Grass Ceiling, Inc. - a company that empowers women to use the game of golf as a networking and communications tool.
www.bpwusa.org /i4a/pages/Index.cfm?pageid=3816   (1912 words)

  
 The Korea Times : Pablo Picasso's "The Luncheon on the Grass" (1961), above, pays homage to the work of the same title ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
The Korea Times : Pablo Picasso's "The Luncheon on the Grass" (1961), above, pays homage to the work of the same title by renowned Impressionist painter Edouard Manet (1832-1883)...
‘The Luncheon on the Grass’ (1961), Oil Painting: Pablo Picasso’s “The Luncheon on the Grass” (1961), above, pays homage to the work of the same title by renowned Impressionist painter Edouard Manet (1832-1883).
Manet’s original oil painting juxtaposes a female nude with fully dressed men sitting on the grass.
times.hankooki.com /lpage/photosalon/200605/kt2006050920070411530.htm   (178 words)

  
 Crystal Cruises - Shore Excursion Details
Next, transfer to your restaurant overlooking Tudor Creek, where a Swahili-style seafood luncheon will be served.
Where the experts said no grass would grow, an entire ecosystem now thrives and is home to giraffes, hippos, small herds of eland, oryx, waterbucks, buffalos, giant tortoises and crocodiles.
During your visit to Haller Park, you will have the opportunity to feed the Rothschild and Maasai giraffes that call the nature reserve their home.
www.crystalcruises.com /window_excursion.aspx?EX=MOM-D&CID=6307&CD=03%2f31%2f2006   (317 words)

  
 The Looking Glass - Picture Window - Vol. 4, No. 1
I first saw his masterpiece Luncheon on the Grass (1863) nearly 20 years ago, and I've been fascinated by it ever since.
There, among the hundreds of works by this great artist, I was amused to discover his numerous variations on Manet's Luncheon on the Grass.
Picasso frequently reworked themes by other artists, but his involvement with Luncheon on the Grass was rather extraordinary.
www.the-looking-glass.net /rabbit/4.1/picture.html   (1457 words)

  
 "Grass" - Shopping.com
Businessman Sitting on Grass with Laptops and a Question Mark On Photograph...
Luncheon on the Grass by Édouard Manet Giclee Print 16x12
Posters, prints and framed art, plus Christmas presents for everyone on your list Luncheon on the Grass available at Art.com.
www.shopping.com /xCC-Grass--price_range_30_50   (917 words)

  
 Priscilla's 100% Natural - Kitty Grass, Catnip and Pet Products
Kitty Grass was used to liven up a luncheon for the Fresh Floral and Produce Council for Southern California in April, 2005.
There were 30 guest table centerpieces with a head table centerpiece and additional Kitty Grass décor dazzled the sign-in table and bars for the event.
These festive table decorations were given away as door prizes at the end of the luncheon.
www.kittygrass.com /home_decor.html   (203 words)

  
 Luncheon Denver Fine Artist - Jerry De La Cruz - paintings, drawings, oils, acrylics, charcoals, Surreal art, ...
Luncheon on the Grass was exhibited with other impressionist paintings at the Salon des Refuses by Manet in 1863.
Luncheon on the Grass caused a public scandal and was savaged by the critics.
Nothing is to be reproduced in any form without written permission.
www.delacruzarts.com /controversy/luncheon.htm   (113 words)

  
 Inside Iowa State
Three Des Moines artists challenged each other to create an artistic response to Edouard Manet's "Luncheon on the Grass." The results of that challenge among John Phillip Davis, Chris Vance and Shawn Wolter will be on display in the Memorial Union Gallery through Sept. 19.
He broke new ground in stressing the arrangement of paint on the canvas rather than what the paint depicted.
"Luncheon on the Grass" received a hostile reaction from critics at an 1863 exhibition, but was enthusiastically embraced by a group of young painters who later formed the nucleus of the Impressionists.
www.iastate.edu /Inside/04/0812/manet.shtml   (314 words)

  
 Édouard Manet (1832-1883)
Édouard Manet «Luncheon on the Grass» (1863), Louvre
The young woman seated at the front is Berthe Morisot, a talented painted in her own right who would soon marry Manet’s brother, Eugène.
As Manet had taken the right to renew the theme of Giorgione, Picasso took his right to extrapolate hundreds of commentaries on the situation proposed by Manet.
french.chass.utoronto.ca /fcs195/manet.html   (528 words)

  
 Marshall County Awards Luncheon
The combined Holly Springs and Byhalia Area chamber of commerce awards luncheon enjoyed another year of high attendance, this time to hear guest speaker Jack Reed of Tupelo tell stories of that city’s economic boom.
The fourth annual awards luncheon was held at Dreamland in Holly Springs.
Perhaps McLean’s words are a good reminder: “I believe that it is the responsibility of the educated people of Mississippi to help raise the level educationally, economically, and culturally of our own people.
www.southreporter.com /2005/wk4/luncheon.html   (969 words)

  
 Luncheon on The Grass: Conversation Project #1   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Bandung Center for New Media Arts' first project, inspired by Edouard Manet's "Luncheon on the Grass" painting.
Four random participants were invited to join lunch together and started conversation about the city they are living in.
The project was reconducted in Finland a year later, involving local citizen of Helsinki.
www.melsa.net.id /~meritja/lunch_01.html   (61 words)

  
 Literature.org - The Online Literature Library
It was close on the luncheon hour up at the house; and he had not decided yet what to do about his letter to Anne.
The only way of writing in peace and quietness would be to wait until they were all at luncheon, and then return to the library.
They are all at luncheon, and the servants are at dinner.
www.literature.org /authors/collins-wilkie/man-and-wife/chapter-21.html   (5981 words)

  
 Sports and Outdoor Activities - Luncheon on the Grass(Le Dejeuner sur L'Herbe) - Oil Painting Reproduction Service | ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
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www.staroilpainting.com /p_9651.htm   (746 words)

  
 Claude Monet Luncheon on the Grass Poster Print
Claude Monet Luncheon on the Grass Poster Print
"Luncheon on the Grass", Claude Monet 1865, oil on canvas 130 x 181 cm, The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow Russia.
This large painting is a study for an even larger one (460 x 600 cm !).
www.interagir.com /?entryID=30   (194 words)

  
 Chapter The Boscombe Valley Mystery of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
I think that I will go in and have a word with Moran, and perhaps write a little note.
Having done that, we may drive back to our luncheon.
You may walk to the cab, and I shall be with you presently.’
www.bibliomania.com /0/0/182/2389/27290/11.html   (407 words)

  
 Edouard Manet: The Luncheon on the Grass Pg. 1010 Fig. 27-47
Edouard Manet: The Luncheon on the Grass Pg.
Manet began to paint genre (everyday) subjects, such as old beggars, street urchins, café characters, and Spanish bullfight scenes.
The background is out of focus and muddy.
www.personal.kent.edu /~rlokay/Dorsay/page5.html   (115 words)

  
 PCQuote | Empowering the Individual Investor   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Oct. 30--As he travels around the nation, San Diego author and journalist Richard Louv hears a lot of stories from adults who remember the treehouses and outdoor forts they built as children.
He recently came to Tacoma as a guest speaker for a Children's Museum of Tacoma luncheon.
The study even compared different types of outdoor experiences -- outdoors with trees and grass versus outdoors without greenery -- and found that greenery made a difference.
www.pcquote.com /stocks/newswire.php?storyid=1392386   (1940 words)

  
 starbulletin.com | News | /2006/10/27/
Besides Freitas, four other women were added to the hall of fame during the 31st annual induction luncheon.
Freitas, 74, who still participates in rodeos, worked with her daughter Sharon to start the "Maui All-Girls and Junior Boys and Girls Rodeo" in 1974.
While growing up with 11 brothers and sisters on a sugar plantation, she would cut grass in the fields and pick kiawe beans to sell for cattle feed and help her mother make clothing from empty bags of cotton.
www.starbulletin.com /2006/10/27/news/story10.html   (519 words)

  
 Hooker Heroes: Victorine Meurend   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
His work "Luncheon on the Grass", displayed at the prestigious official Salon exhibition of 1863, shocked Parisians with its bold treatment of a most unusual subject.
Such a realistic portrayal of prostitution so outraged Parisians that "Olympia" had to be moved near the Salon's high ceiling for its own protection.
But in the decades to follow, both "Luncheon on the Grass" and "Olympia" were recognized as groundbreaking masterpieces, and found a home in the world's most renowned museum: the Louvre.
wondersmith.com /heroes/meurend.htm   (329 words)

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