Whereas modernist art sought to redeem and sacralize the world, to give life to world ( we might say, following Graff, to give the world back the enchantment that science and the decline of religion had taken away from it ), postmodernist art bestows upon the world a " deathly quality … whose glacéd X-ray elegance mortifies the reified eye of the viewer in a way that would seem to have nothing to do with death or the death obsession or the death anxiety on the level of content " ( ibid .).

In 1753 Graff started studying painting at the art school of Johann Ulrich Schellenberg in Winterthur.

Groven's art is influenced by painters such as Rembrandt van Rijn, Käthe Kollwitz, as well as Norwegian artists such as Adolph Tidemand, Hans Gude, J. C. Dahl, Christian Krohg and the contemporary caricaturist Finn Graff.

Upon arrival at Shakespeare, Ender quickly and easily crushes Morgan's attempted bloodless coup, with a little help from Minister of Colonization Hyrum Graff back on earth.

Of the various particle accelerators, the Van De Graff machines, resonant transformers, and linear accelerators are the principal ones available for commercial use.

It is said that Graff held the first patent for a fire hydrant, but this cannot be verified because the patent office in Washington D. C. caught on fire in 1836 destroying many patent records from that period in the process.

Also, in 2003, Mark Graff, President of Trans Digital Media, the brand management firm for Playgirl TV, stated that 50 % of Playgirl's readership are gay men.

Achilles is later sent to Battle School simply as a test for Bean: Colonel Graff wants to see how Bean will deal with the resurfacing of his old nemesis from Rotterdam.

Taking the advice of the Minister of Colonization Graff, Bean follows in Ender's footsteps, living at relativistic light-speed along with the three of his children who share his disorder, in the hope that a cure can be found for the condition, while Petra and Bean's five ' normal ' children remain on Earth.

While Bean and Petra wait for news, Graff extends invitations to the other members of Ender's Jeesh to leave Earth and rule colonies, where they can conquer to their heart's content without causing needless wars between themselves, and instructs Bean to support Peter in forming the FPE.

After being tested, he was introduced to then-Captain Hyrum Graff as a leading candidate for the role which Ender would later play, but his personality was judged too set in anti-authority patterns.

He arranged a deal through which his family would be moved to America and given exemption from the population laws in exchange for a modicum of guaranteed service, which both he and Graff knew he had no intention of fulfilling.

The book is notable for having new and behind the scenes information on certain topics such as Battle School Slang, The Look of the Formics, The History of Hyrum Graff, Ender and Valentine's Travels, and Mazer Rackham's Spaceship.

Additionally, Jon Voight, James Caan, James Brolin and Burt Reynolds along with Paul Newman and Steve McQueen, were considered for the part of Stewart Graff.

These include Beau Bridges, Alan Alda, Stacy Keach, James Brolin ( who was also considered for Stewart Graff ), Rock Hudson, John Cassavetes, Kevin Tighe and William Atherton.

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In Shadow of the Giant, Bean issues a request for Graff to reprogram the Mind Game to become a neutral trust holder of Ender's trust fund.

A repeat of his unsuccessful year in Formula 3000 prompted a move to World Series by Nissan in 2001, signing for the Epsilon by Graff team.

* The Graff Lab, a free outdoor venue for graffiti artists, is at the southeast corner of Venice Boulevard and Union Avenue.

Its lyrics were written by Chauncey Olcott and George Graff, Jr., set to music composed by Ernest Ball, for Olcott's production of The Isle O ' Dreams, and Olcott sang the song in the show.

In Shadow of the Giant, when Bean suspects Peter Wiggin of embezzling Ender's trust fund for his Hegemony uses, he recalls the nature of the Fantasy Game and requests that Graff place it in charge of Ender's trust fund.

The Fantasy Game is assumed to have grown in complexity during the 3000-year gap between Shadow of the Giant and Speaker for the Dead, especially as Graff describes the Mind Game as being able to reprogram itself, and finally becomes the sentient Jane.

* May 17 – 21-Captain Michel de Grammont leads a group of six privateers totaling over 1, 000 men, including Dutch privateers Laurens de Graff and Nicholas van Hoorn, in an attack on Veracruz looting the town for four days and ransoming several prominent citizens, including Governor Don Luis de Cordova and visiting Irish merchant John Murphy, before returning to Petit-Goâve with over 800 pesos a man.

* July 6-Laurens de Graff and Michel de Grammont storm ashore at Campeche with a force of 750 men and begin looting the city for two months while the Armada de Barlovento searches for the buccaneers base on the island of Roatán off the coast of Honduras.

Most recently he drove for Graff again, this time in the 2004 World Series Light.

On April 7, 1766, Graff arrived in Dresden where he was appointed court painter and teacher for portrait painting at the Dresden Art Academy, a post he kept for life although he got better paid offers at other academies, among others in Berlin.

Graff was also the main portrait painter of German poets between the Enlightenment and the early Romantic periods.

From another perspective, the historian Harvey Graff has argued that the introduction of mass schooling was in part an effort to control the type of literacy that the working class had access to.

" Daniel Freeman had his neighbors, Joseph Graff and Samuel Kilpatrick, sign this first document.

Graff and his wife had 5 children.

Independence National Historical Park comprises a landscaped area of four city blocks, as well as outlying sites that include: Independence Square, Carpenters ' Hall ( meeting place of the First Continental Congress ), the site of Benjamin Franklin's home, the reconstructed Graff House ( where Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence ), City Tavern ( center of Revolutionary War activities ), restored period residences, and several early banks.

" The official name is Philotic Parallax Instantaneous Communicator ," explains Colonel Graff in Ender's Game, " but somebody dredged the name ansible out of an old book somewhere.

Initially Ender believes Graff is a potential friend and ally, unaware of the fact Graff believes Ender is Earth's last great hope in defending from a Formic attack.

Between being ostracized by his fellow cadets and having troubling dreams about Formics, Ender is soon ready to quit the school, but Graff encourages him through communications sent from Valentine.

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Its mayor is Milton Graff Pedersen, a member of the Social Democrats ( Socialdemokraterne ) political party.

Groff is an anglicized form of the surname Graf or Graff and of predominantly Swiss and sometimes German origin.

The invention of a post-or pillar-type fire hydrant is generally credited to Frederick Graff Sr., Chief Engineer of the Philadelphia Water Works around the year 1801.

Sloane Street is quickly catching up with Bond Street as one of London's premier shopping destinations, housing a variety of high-end fashion or jewellery boutiques such as Cartier, Tiffany & Co, Dolce & Gabbana, Prada, Gucci, Harrods, Dior, Louis Vuitton, Jimmy Choo, Giorgio Armani, Yves Saint Laurent, Chanel, Valentino, Bvlgari, Gianni Versace, Graff.

Despite the misgivings of Peter and Bean, Graff states flatly that Achilles is not unbeatable ; though he is smart, his major talent has been to put himself in the middle of turmoil and seize opportunities without hesitation.

The court martial of Hyrum Graff is expanded upon ; some light is shed on Graff's life after he was made Minister of Colonization, as well as where Mazer Rackham went off to after the Formic War.

Ender's first stop, at the request of Hyrum Graff, is the Hindu colony of Ganges which is governed by Virlomi, a former battle school student who caused an uprising in India before she was subdued and exiled by Peter Wiggin's Hegemony.

Gaming Target's Steve Graff observed that the audio is " suspenseful and exciting " and " it always keeps the mood of the level ".