His definition of art is worth repeating: "Art takes what in life is an accidental pleasure and tries to repeat and prolong it". Denby's criticism prolongs for us the ghostly images of past performances and traces out the half-century of Balanchine's extraordinary trajectory.
Pianist Ahmad Jamal (a man even Miles Davis credited as a big influence) is now 81 – and he remains a genius at the art of motivic improvising, repeating a catchy theme (so listeners don't lose the plot) while transforming it with fresh melody.
Data collection included an audit of professional nurse posts created and filled following the introduction of the ART programme, repeated surveys of facilities providing ART over two years to assess the deployment of staff, and secondary data analysis of government personnel databases to track broader patterns of recruitment and training.
The notion of the bucket list legitimizes this diminished conception of the value of repeated exposure to art and culture.
Imagine a piece of art, repeated countless times for years costing nothing (other than the energy it required to step out of routine and visit the lighthouse) and holding specific emotion and remembrance for the person whom pressed it slowly and steadily onto the page.
Unlike a good deal of Cuban art, which repeats the same images and engages the same tropes – notions of longing, loss, freedom and the lack of it, deterioration, and the tension of living in a seemingly perpetual ambiguity – Picasso seems to be working with other ideas.
Her esoteric style is a philosophy of repeated layers of paint and color that creates strength, significance, depth and longevity of each art piece.
In the two "Kill Bill" movies, he seemed stuck in a lunatic overelaboration of figures from martial-arts films, repeating himself endlessly.
To assess the effects of mono and dual ART, we repeated these analyses for individuals using only CD4+ measurements prior to the initiation of mono or dual therapy, respectively.
"Art!" he repeated, and gave an angry growl.
