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单项选择题Oscar Night Oscar Night is one of the most awaited events in the entire entertainment industry of the world. The award ceremony has become an inseparable component of the life of all the people associated with Hollywood. One cannot simply escape the charm of this wonderful night. The Scheduled time of the glitzy evening of Academy Award is usually late February or early March. It is time when the awards are presented for the year-best achievements in the Motion Picture Industry. The Oscar statuette, presented during the Awards night. Is regarded to be the most prestigious honor for Hollywood artists. Oscar ceremony was started with the intention of acknowledging the excellence in Holly- wood. It was also an approach, made along time back, to encourage the spirit of the people connected with the Motion picture industry. The various categories of award try to honor people involved in all the facets of filmmaking. Academy Awards Night comprises of that point of time when the talented artists of the film fraternity get the apt recognition. It is the best way of honoring the efforts and dedication that go into the making of a movie. Oscars are organized in a grand manner, with an alluring appeal. This mega event takes place an the Kodak Theatre, in Los Angeles, annually. Oscar Night is the much-awaited moment, when all the stars of Hollywood gather at a single venue, The Red Carpet is roiled out for the dignitaries of the function. The air is filled with the gusto and zeal of the celebrities, who are invited to witness this ceremony. The atmosphere of Oscar Night is ruled by an element of surprise. It is the night when the mystery unfolds with each passing moment, with the announcement of winners in various categories.

单项选择题Gardens of Claude Monet in Giverny Flowers, color, and light are essential elements in interior decorating. And nowhere are these more evident than in the home and gardens of Claude Monet in Giverny, France. Filled with the bright, clear colors of nature, this home is a must-see for anyone who loves art, flowers, color, or decorating. It is especially remarkable because the usual decorating of the day included heavy curtains, large velvet upholstered pieces, and dark, somber interiors. Monet broke from that tradition when he moved here in 1883, enchanted by the quiet village of Vernon, rolling country hills, pretty trees and fields all laid out gracefully along the banks of the Este River. Monet was still a struggling artist when he arrived in Giverny. It was one of his paintings that had given this new arts movement its name-"Impressionism"-for the use of dabs of color on canvas, rather than sweeping brushstrokes or more classic painstaking detail. While at first reviled by critics impressionism began to grow in popularity and buy 1890 Monet’s art was selling well enough that he could afford to purchase his rented home for the price of 22,000 francs, equal to the price of just two or three of his paintings. He stayed in this home for the rest of his life, until 1926. Monet’s love of pure color is fully expressed in the decoration of his home. Outside, bright pink stucco walls contrast with forest green shutters. Inside, brilliant yellow hues brighten the dining room while lovely watery blues and greens grace the entry. In the kitchen two tones of blue burst into a riot of color, highlighted with copper pots and blue and white tiles from Rouen. On display in the dining room is the matching yellow china wares filled with a collection of blue and white china pieces as well as the yellow and blue banded dinnerware he had commissioned in his own design. In the center, a large table is set for the family and guests. A pretty fireplace at the end of the room shows off blue and white tiles under a mantle decorated simply with an arrangement of bottle green vases. Japanese prints cover the walls. The home is one room deep and about five rooms wide, each with windows overlooking the magnificent gardens where great care was taken in the planning and planting. Monet eventually expanded his land to include a small stream, pond, and water lily gardens on an adjacent properly. At one point he employed a staff of six gardeners to care for the grounds and keep the gar-dens supplied with flowering blooms. It is the gardens that seem to be the focal point of the home. Laid out in neat rows, with paths, archways, and color, Monet oversaw every de- tail. Strolling through them, one almost expects to come upon the scene of Monet paining, his wife and a child in front of his magnificent rose garden. Join us for a beautiful photo tour of Monet’s gardens.

单项选择题Blues Starting my own section of blues recommendations fills me with a creeping sense of guilt and complicity. Why Because I’m a white guy writing about an almost completely black genre-black, at least in its origins and in the artists that brought the blues to its zenith in the 50’s and 60’s Unlike, say jazz or soul , white performers played little or no positive role in the development of the blues. What positive effect whites had been far outweighed by the commercial exploitation and social exclusion blues pioneers met at every crossroads. Further, there have been absolutely no significant white blues performers. A few are only imitators. Most can’t even properly be called blues musician: they played rock , folk , or pop music influenced by the blues , and much of it was unabashedly horrible , Mostly, though , writing about the blues makes me feel complicit in the unseemly, modern "blues revival" , a movement almost completely white and unoriginal , a popular uprising of middle-class , middle-aged (usually drunk) white guys pretending that they know something about oppression , depravity, rebellion , and the contradictory celebration of life arises from those conditions . These things are the essence of the blues, and, being a middle-class, middle-aged white guy I can vouch that we know nearly nothing about them. So why am I here Well, I can also youth that the blues, like all music, is a universal language, and I have come to understand it academically, if not experientially. Eventually, I came to love blues music if only for its influence on music more akin to my world-rhythm and blues, soul, rock-but in its own right too. In a general way , the blues speak to things we all have in common-love , betrayal , anger , death-and , from that perspective , I , too , got a right to sing the blues-just , well , not in public. On the other hand, as mentioned above, the blues world is now dominated by while folks. The records are made by while performers, many of them talented and certainly well- meaning but often sanitized and uninspired in ways anathema to the blues. White blues musicians frequently teeter on the precipice of caricature. Like Amos N’ Andy they trade in grossly rendered black mannerisms; that they do it out of love for the form rather than derision of the race seems a poor excuse. Sadly, though, most modern blues records-the good ones as well as the bad-are sold almost exclusively to white folks, too. The black audience for blues music has dwindled down to an older, mainly southern crowd of diehard. So, let’s be honest. I come to praise that original style. Indeed, in my research and writing, I hope to increase my own understanding and appreciation for it. And I hold no particular grudge against modern blues, though modern players will be few and far between among my recommendations Mainly, I cannot ignore the fact that modern blues fans made rich men out of John Lee Hooker, B, B, King, Buddy Guy, and other deserving old masters. But, also, there are modern artists who have made great blues records, Many of these artists are from my home state of Texas, so it seems unpatriotic, if not dishonest, not to acknowledge this fact.

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