Word: afar
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...Seascapes, another of Sugimoto's most famous series, are photographs of horizons, where the water meets the sky, taken all over the world, in all types of weather. From afar, they are pure blocks of contrasting shade. Light on top, dark on the bottom (or sometimes, intriguingly, the reverse), they look at first like little more than a homage to Mark Rothko's color-field painting. But up close, each photo is marvelously detailed. Wisps of clouds are clearly defined and individual wave crests reflect the sun at different but interlacing angles. Displayed together so that the horizons all line...
...suspense. (Best such sequence: a child innocently answers a call on an explosive-laden phone meant to blow her father to kingdom come.) At more than 2 1/2 hours, Munich allows itself time to efficiently develop character, particularly among Avner's team, which is run--mostly from afar--by Geoffrey Rush's hard-assed executive spook. The assassins include a hot-blooded South African hit man played by Daniel Craig, who is the next James Bond; Ciaran Hinds as his opposite, a meticulous cleanup artist; Mathieu Kassovitz as a toymaker who dabbles in bombmaking; and Hanns Zischler as an expert...
...once had the opportunity to see Pearl Jam live and up close. But then MTV fame grabbed hold, and I now watch them (and many other of my favorite bands) from afar. Perhaps declining record sales are in a way a blessing for these bands, and will make them truly alternative once again. JONATHAN HURWITZ San Francisco
...YOUNG: No, no, never saw him. I watched him from afar, and I thought he was he was just a character. You get that feeling from him that everything that happened to him, he was still who he was. He seemed like a wild guy but a good guy, and somebody that funny things happened...
With the war wrapped into so many political knots in Baghdad and Washington and the insurgents proving so resilient, the fight in Tall 'Afar, as in Iraq, is far from over. On the ground in the deserted city, the U.S. is pouring money into reconstruction in a bid to win local opinion. But there is every reason to believe the violence will return and the U.S. will be forced to fight there again--with the insurgents betting that the Americans will lose a bit more of their will and support each time they go back. In a house overrun during...