Word: apartness
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...world market in white furniture and puzzling chrome ornaments-compiles the raving apologia of academics and designers in its own, biannual journal (sample: "Hotels of the avant-garde are rapidly becoming the starting points for experiences of reality that allow orientation in a world that is both falling apart and coming together"). Thames & Hudson publishes the Hip Hotels series, an anthology of vacuity, as well as the StyleCity collection of travel guides. To enter the latter's realm-or, for that matter, the domain of the Luxe City Guides or the Wallpaper City Guides-is to land in a parallel...
...wean Ghana from trade and investment with Britain and the other colonial powers. But Nkrumah's policies came at a high price. Industrialization cost millions, and the government neglected cocoa, Ghana's traditional export crop, which brought in most of the foreign exchange. Ghana's economy began to fall apart. In 1964, in a move that would be repeated by other African leaders in the decades to come, Nkrumah declared Ghana a one-party state and himself leader for life. The early optimism was replaced by a deep sense of disappointment and lost opportunity. "There were a lot of problems...
...today she is about to open a swanky café in Rwanda's capital. In his reporting on the "true stories of people who turned their obsessions into professions," Josh Piven, author of The Escape Artists, to be published this spring, found that career change sometimes tore couples and families apart. "Some people in your life are like, Are you crazy?" he says. "It's not always a happy ending...
...rest of the book defending the policies of containment. “The defense of containment,” says Shapiro, “is not that it will always work, but rather that it should always be attempted.” In making this argument, Shapiro meticulously picks apart every aspect of the Bush Doctrine, to show how and why it is ineffective. He compares it to historical precedent, designating six features of the doctrine that are extreme departures from prior American national security policy. He attacks Bush’s hypocrisy by using the president?...
...expression that stirs up more drama than the average land-dweller would think. “Islander,” writer-director Ian McCrudden’s latest project, chronicles the life of a lobster fisherman learning to accept the consequences of an act which tears his life apart. Although the film’s plot lacks narrative drive, the strong sense of place, quirky subject material, and solid acting carries the film from a dramatic start to a heartwarming finish. Eben Cole, a lifelong fisherman on a small island off the coast of Maine, loses his friends, family...