Ellipse
An ellipse is a kind of oval. It is the oval formed by the intersection of a plane and a right circular cone-one of the four types of conic sections. The other three are the circle, the hyperb...
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Somewhere beyond the sea, there’s a lot of inspiration for spring. Shades such as aqua and motifs such as coral paired with sleek, contemporary furnishings were among the top trends at the Sp...
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President Bush, keeping up a White House tradition that spans decades, ushered in the holidays Thursday as the National Christmas Tree came aglow in bright lights of gold, red and blue. The preside...
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we-almost-revealed-the-JT Leroy-hoax press release a few months back, The Nation's publicity director, Mike Webb, fired off a release this afternoon--in the wake of USA Today's exclusive NSA data-m...
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When I was young, all journalists of any ambition worshiped Trow because of his groundbreaking 1980 essay, "Within the Context of No-Context." As style, as vision, a theory, the piece had enormous ...
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On one side of him, a dancer grinds her abundant curves in a hypnotic ellipse. On the other, childhood friend-turned-spiritual adviser Reverend Jermaine Turner casts a dignified gaze over the room ...
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The American artist Joseph Cornell (1903-1972) created one of the 20th century’s strangest and most quixotic bodies of work. Through the tender arrangement of dolls, balls and assorted Victor...
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The lighting of the Christmas tree at Rockefeller Center is probably the most famous celebration of its kind, and this year it will take place Nov. 28, 7-9 p.m. If you're not among the thousands cr...
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