While the U.S. was struggling through the Depression and encouraging the kind of representational art tinged with social themes propagated by the Works Progress Administration, the Park Avenue cubists insisted art should exist apart from politics, in a protected sphere where individuals could assert a private vision.

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Apart from state-of-the-art facilities, what will a centralized hub offer English football which is does not have already?

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After all, Warner, which came as close as anybody apart from Disney to mastering the hit-picking art, is currently faltering.

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These and other convincing results make a case that art has a quite tangible health value, even apart from the qualities we admire and value for more obvious reasons.

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It may be their budget offering (apart from a few river-facing rooms, it has shared bathrooms), but the art direction is no less obsessive, down to the potted palms in the lobby and a clanky old lift.

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