Word: apartness
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...years past, Lee Kuan Yew's office was famous among visitors for its arctic air conditioning and Spartan furnishing. A few Chinese scrolls apart, there was little decoration and sometimes barely a sheet of paper to be seen. Singapore's founding father first moved into the office on the second floor of the former British governor-general's residence in 1971, having already served six years as Prime Minister. He retired in 1990 to become Senior Minister and later Minister Mentor, but still works out of the same rooms...
...world stage to tout their punditry and powers of prediction. Some can even lay claim to having guided far larger countries or served as leaders for longer than Lee. But Lee is unique. It is not just that his cold-eyed, totally nonideological analysis has set him apart from other observers of Asia. There is another factor that is just as important an explanation of Lee's influence. From his days as a clerk and a black-market broker during the brutal Japanese occupation of Singapore - which he was lucky to survive - through his years as an agitator for independence...
Atlanta, Chicago, Houston The Hotel Indigo chain sets itself apart with hardwood floors, spa-style showers, free wi-fi and Starbucks coffee in the lobby. One caveat: guests had better like the color blue. Rooms start...
...Season 1 last winter, a cast of wannabe Vera Wangs squared off in design challenges that included sewing outfits from grocery-store items (the best entries used a lawn chair and cornhusks). In Season 2 (Wednesdays, 10 p.m. E.T.), one designer concocts a dress so audacious it may fall apart on the runway: it's held together by magnets. Other television shows keep you on pins and needles. Only this one is about pins and needles...
...tidy conclusions, no moral victories. Jagged scenes, choppy story lines, and sharp dialogue bemuse and befuddle. The plot snakes in and around itself, yet the narrative entanglement revealed by the narrative peak lacks any sort of clear solution.But this uneasiness sets “Syriana” apart as striking and provocative. The movie raises questions about politics, war, and the Middle East through the lens of the world’s—particularly America’s—addiction to oil without offering easy answers. Such abstractions and complexities seem to authentically reflect the atmosphere...