Success is no longer measured in terms of abstract metrics like site traffic or number of impressions.

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Today, local artist Souad Attabi makes no secret of the sources for her abstract paintings depicting Berber talismans, hung at the Bab Sebaa Gallery.

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But when the same test was presented simply as an abstract laboratory tool, with no relevance to ability, the scores of blacks and whites were virtually identical.

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Museum curators shunned American abstract painting, claiming it was no more than a pale imitation of "authentic" artists like Picasso.

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You also need an abstract black and white TV commercial that makes no sense, preferably directed by a European who goes by one name and screams at the caterer for bringing carbs onto the set.

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The Abstract Expressionist painter Clyfford Still numbered his canvases because no words could do them justice.

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No one had Berlin's gift for dramatising and personalising abstract ideas.

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You gave me no figures in your question so I'll answer in the abstract.

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