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With the Dalai Lama on the podium was a retired and eminent Indiana University professor who had the honor of introducing the speaker. It was impossible not to notice that the man walked with the aid of two cumbersome crutches.

The Dalai Lama Cheap Snapback hats lectured for about an hour, his high-pitched voice rising even higher when he spoke about the universal need for compassion.

When he completed his speech, the Dalai Lama welcomed questions from the audience. The first two questions were technical ones about Buddhism, questions that seemed to have been asked simply to show the intelligence of the questioner. I wondered if all the questions were going to be that abstract.

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And I, too, wanted an answer. When my wife lost her father only a few months before, I lost one of my closest friends. My wife and I were still grieving.

After a moment, the Dalai Lama responded, saying that we grieve because we try to hang on to those we love. Grief means that we have tried to stop the river of time so that those we love will not leave us. We need to learn to let go.

Moved by the response, I kept my eye on this extraordinary man when the event ended. Within seconds,Cheap Kids Baseball Hats there were 20 people on the stage, all of them hoping to say a few words to the famous guest.

But at the back of the podium, the elderly professor was struggling to rise from his chair. At first he didn't succeed, but he tried again. Everyone's attention was on the Dalai Lama, and the professor's struggles went largely unnoticed.

Suddenly, the Dalai Lama turned completely around, walked over to his friend and helped him to his feet.

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IMA program will explore Cassatt's portrayal of period fashion

"She's quite well-known as an American painter during the Impressionist time," said Indianapolis Museum of Art Textiles Curator Niloo Paydar.

But if you look a little more closely, Cheap MLB hats you see a detailed rendering of the times -- and the clothes -- in which Cassatt painted.

The IMA's Fashion Arts Society and the Alliance of the Indianapolis Museum of Art have arranged for Nancy Mowll Mathews -- a Cassatt expert and Williams College Museum of Art curator of 19th- and 20th-century art -- to lead a discussion on the ways Cassatt used the clothing in her paintings to comment on modern life and modern art.

For the IMA, the Cassatt talk is another way to engage its visitors with art; it's another lens or perspective, said Ellen Lee, the IMA Wood-Pulliam senior curator.

"Clothing is so personal, and it is so Cheap Mixed Brands Snapback Hats reflective of personality," Lee said. "It's part of our everyday life, so it's kind of irresistible. Clothing and how it's worn is another visual art. It's another aspect of aesthetics, and it can be so lively and so approachable."

To know the woman is to know her times -- and her clothing.

Raised in an affluent Pennsylvania-based family, Cassatt was already a clotheshorse by the time she moved to Paris in 1866 to study painting.

"If you look at photographs of her in her teens and 20s, she's always dressed to the nines," Mathews said.

Cassatt was a keen observer of fashion -- and she had "a real sense of her own style, which comes out in her self-portraits," said Gloria Groom, curator at the Art Institute of Chicago. "For her paintings, she used understated, beautiful materials that are still in some ways very classic."

The late 19th century also Cheap NFL Hats saw dress reform, in which women adopted bloomers or, even more popularly, the Neoclassical dress -- a loose-fitting dress of light material, almost like a nightgown. The dress was adopted by many artists' wives or other bold women who eschewed the steel bones of corsetry.

"(The Neoclassical dress) is very risqué and, of course, very freeing -- but daring," Mathews said.

But Cassatt probably didn't adopt them for her daily wear. She favored highly tailored suits executed in dark colors and elegant fabrics.

"I think she would have been perfectly happy to live out her life in those styles," Mathews said.

But the painter certainly adopted the clothing for her pieces, including sketches for her "Modern Woman Murals," commissioned for the 1893 Chicago World's Fair.

At times, Cassatt had custom-made clothing Cheap Baseball Hats created specifically for the sitter; those paintings signify collaboration between artist and clothier, Mathews said, and helped elevate clothing to artistry by using dresses that were nothing short of an homage to the modern dressmaker.

Dress colors are used to create an ethereal feel -- silky pinks and whites project a freshness, she said.

"She has such a mastery of the subject. I can't help but look at every one of her paintings and think that she used all of those clothing and accessories with some reason."

The Impressionists made fashion a centerpiece -- large exhibits in salons encouraged fancy dress and fashionable clothes; arts patrons wanted to be seen as fashionable. While we now look to celebrities on the runways of awards shows for our inspiration, Impressionist art led fashion and showed what was of the moment.

The clothing in Cassatt's paintings Cheap Snapback hats helps us to identify the women of the generation depicted -- a generation that was figuring out what "modern" meant, Mathews said.

Artists have always been trendsetters, said Indianapolis gallery director Christopher West. Fashion is still used deliberately in contemporary art, he said.

"Two artists that first come to mind are Kehinde Wiley and Mickalene Thomas," West said. "They're both African-American artists who are kind of recontextualizing the clothing Cheap New Era 59Fifty hats in the paintings; they're looking for a particular feel or mood."

"We look at works of art for aesthetic pleasure, but they can also be mined for historical information," said the IMA's Lee. "You can read a painting for what it has to tell you about style or customs or fashion."

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Dimanche 24 octobre 2010

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The history of the National Football League began in 1920, when representatives of several professional American football leagues and independent teams met in Canton, Ohio. The league The National Football League (NFL jerseys cheap)was the idea of legendary American Indian Olympic athlete Jim Thorpe, player-coach of the Canton Bulldogs, and Leo Lyons, owner of the Rochester Jeffersons, a sandlot football team. Both the Jeffersons and the Buffalo All-Stars were barnstorming through Ohio at the time. After Lyons's Jeffersons played, and lost badly to, Thorpe's Bulldogs in a 1917 match, Lyons (wanting to build a sport that rivaled Major League Baseball in popularity) suggested to Thorpe that a league be formed. Plans could not be initiated immediately in 1918, due to the Spanish flu quarantines and the loss of players to World War I, which led to the Bulldogs suspending operations and most other teams either suspending operations or reducing their schedules to local teams. The teams in New York remained in operation and picked up whatever players were still available.

The next year, however, Lyons started in his home state of New York, challenging a cluster of professional teams in Buffalo to a championship in 1919; the Buffalo Prospects took the challenge and won. Canton was already a part of the unofficial Ohio League, which included teams such as the Bulldogs, the Massillon Tigers, the Shelby Blues and the Ironton Tanks; Thorpe convinced Bulldogs manager Ralph Hay and other Ohio teams to play under a league-style format for 1919, after which the team barnstormed against the Detroit Heralds of Detroit, Michigan and the Hammond Pros of Chicago, Illinois. Other independent clusters of teams were playing at about the same time across Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota and Indiana; Pennsylvania and New York City also had teams but did not contribute any to the NFL (NFL jerseys wholesale)at the time of its founding. This is especially notable since Pennsylvania is often considered to be the birthplace of professional football; at the time, New York City and Pennsylvania both had blue laws that prevented any of those municipalities' teams from joining the league until 1924.

Ohio's teams, usually considered the best in the country at the time, went along with the idea in the face of escalating costs: several bidding wars, both in Pennsylvania and Ohio, in the early 1900s had damaged the sport significantly, and another bidding war was about to erupt if something was not done. By forming a national league, teams reasoned that it would eliminate the practices of looting other teams' rosters and concentrating top talent in only a few teams, thus distributing talent more evenly and efficiently thereby reducing costs for each individual team while still keeping a top-level product on the field.
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League membership gradually stabilized throughout the 1920s and 1930s as the league adopted progressively more formal organization. The first official championship game was held in 1933. The NFL stopped signing black players in 1927 but reintegrated in 1946 following World War II. Other changes followed after the war; the office of league President evolved into the more powerful Commissioner post, mirroring a similar move in Major League Baseball. Teams became more financially viable, the last team folding in 1952. By 1958, when that season's NFL championship game became known as "The Greatest Game Ever Played", the NFL was on its way to becoming one of the most popular sports leagues in the United States.

The rival American Football League was founded in 1959. It was very successful, and forced a merger with the older NFL that resulted in a greatly expanded league and the creation of the Super Bowl, which has become the most-watched annual sporting event in the United States. The league continued to expand to its current size of 32 teams. A series of labor agreements during the 1990s and increasingly large television contracts has helped keep the league one of the most profitable and the only major league in the U.S. since 1990 to avoid a major work stoppage.
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