"Hover between abstraction and representation"

Here goes a well-written sentence from NYT:
"The artists chosen by Ross Bleckner, a painter known for canvases that hover between abstraction and representation, display an ethereal quality similar to his own, except in photographs rather than paint."
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/25/nyregion/artists-choose-artists-at-the-parrish-art-museum-review.html

Some Chinese peasants used to build outside toilet rooms and sties side by side. I wonder if that still is the omnipresent case nowadays and if the sanitation has improved.

On a different note, as more and more Chinese peasants have been bought out of 'their' lands and put into apartment-like buildings in more concentrated areas due to the frenzy real estate construction boom, will those areas soaked with ex-peasants become rundown slums further down the road, given that many ex-peasants and their children don't have sufficient education under their belts to prosper away from land?

It seems that more and more influential figures in the U.S. publicly hold opinions that Wall Street deserves being inveighed against and being occupied.

Wall Street is not a synonym of 'glamour' any more.

The tincts of failures reside deeply in my memory. They serve as beacons, as life lessons.

I became better after they had happened.

And on a related note, I think it's a pity for one if he goes through his life unchallenged or not challenged often enough.