Interestingly, during these years Braque was soon joined in using this Vanitas subject by Picasso, whose own still-life paintings and sculpture now employed skulls.
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She struggled with her own work-life balance, and developed a sense that too many women at Google and elsewhere were dropping out of the workforce after becoming mothers, in part because they had not pushed to get a job they loved before they began having children.
He felt his worries were founded when he learned that star NFL linebacker Junior Seau -- who took his own life last May -- suffered from a neurodegenerative brain disease that can develop from concussions known as chronic traumatic encephalopathy or CTE.
In many ways, Material has more than a whiff of Moosa's own life-story about it.
Mr Aldrin describes the rockiness of his own post-moon life: alcoholism, depression, two failed marriages and a sad end to his air-force career.
All of those are things that I think in your own life - if you don't mind my mentioning - you might find, you know, troubling among lots.
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Or maybe Fitzgerald merely was looking at his own unhappy life--and confessing how hard it is to pretend that one's work matters when one is beset by drunkenness and depression.
There were stories of two potential donors who'd turned against the idea precisely because what they had seen as an altruistic act - giving the chance of life to someone else when their own chance of life had gone - had become a demand from the state.
Surgeon Simulator 2013 is a darkly humorous over-the-top operation sim game where players become Nigel Burke, an ordinary guy taking life into his own shaky hands, performing life-saving surgical manoeuvres on passive patients.
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My Big Fat Greek Wedding started life as Vardalos' one-woman stand-up performance, based on her own life as a Greek marrying a non-Greek.
It is an approach I use in my own life and has been a life-line in times of difficulty.
And I have seen this again and again in my own life experiences -- especially as a mother.
And just to underline how cool it is, Valve green lit Black Mesa, a remake of one of its own games (Half-Life).
Even in my own, non-celebrity life, I sometimes feel that making eye contact with a person can give a jolt of energy, or more often, drain some energy away.
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Even two or three years ago, some viewers of 24 were wondering how many more "worst days" the show's haunted hero could suffer through before ending his own miserable, split-screen life.
The ultimate goal is to empower blind consumers to create their own low-cost and potentially life-saving tools -- particularly in developing countries, which account for an estimated 90 percent of the world's blind population.
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But Greece was jolted even more Wednesday after a 77-year-old man took his own life in the busy Syntagma Square, central Athens, the scene of several violent clashes between anti-austerity protesters and the police in recent months.
Insurance companies, too, have responded to the mutual-fund threat by developing their own retail funds, usually packaged in a life-insurance wrapper.
"Vanity" - a bronze throne made of eerily life-like casts of his own body - will be sat upon by an actor playing yet another president, and delivering a fiery speech, at the street party he is planning for the launch of his new exhibition next month.
The White House statement said Monti "displayed immeasurable courage and uncommon valor -- eventually sacrificing his own life in an effort to save his comrade, " but did not provide details of his actions.
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He continued to write novels, often based on his own wartime experiences throughout his life - perhaps most poignantly in his first book A Crowd is not Company, which took its lead from his experience as a German prisoner of war during World War II.
The whole system is now being reviewed again - this time by the independent committee on standards in public life - which will bring forward its own recommendations later this year.
The crisp and admirably self-deprecating vignettes of his own life, both emotional and professional, give his parents' story a fitting perspective.
The original is a novel about a billionaire who dies and attempts to save his grand-nephew from destroying his own life with money.
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Nuchereno believes Ortiz's confession was prompted by several factors, including his mental illness, his inability to understand English well and a deep-seated fear for his own life.
Mrs McKeown also said her late husband Stephen - Rebecca's stepfather - tried to take his own life five or six times before he killed himself in March 2008.
So if the dentist doesn't need the money, he can leave it growing tax free for his kids and grandkids, who can then stretch out tax-free withdrawals over their own life expectancies.
Still, the author, a beleaguered dad whose daily child-negotiation obligations make my own life look like a walk in the park, says that all the good advice from experts in the world is not good enough to stop him, his wife, and their friends from resorting to bribery.
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