Word: armchair
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Minoru Mori, Tokyo's most powerful property tycoon and a leading member of Japan's most prominent real estate--development family, fancies himself to be something of a philosopher-builder. Sitting in a leather armchair behind a gigantic marble conference table at his company headquarters, the 69-year-old president and CEO of Mori Building grandiloquently expounds upon his vision: Buildings are not just business ventures or structures where people live and work but also opportunities for social betterment. His goal, he says, is to revolutionize the way his countrymen live by creating high-rise, inner-city communities that...
...think he's wrong, dead wrong," the challenger replies. What Bush calls "strength and confidence" Kerry calls "hubris and swagger" from the "armchair warriors." Where Bush defends what he did, Kerry attacks how he did it. Bush's rush to war, the Senator argues, never gave diplomacy a chance to accomplish the same goals: far from making us safer, the President's policies have overextended our troops, distracted our attention, diverted resources and damaged the alliances we need to track down terrorists everywhere else. Credit for progress in Libya and Iran belongs to diplomats in Europe, he says...
...revolutionary, albeit a more subtle one. Comparing more than 110 paintings and drawings, Picasso Ingres at the Musée National Picasso (March 17-June 21) brings together such works as Ingres' Portrait of Madame Rivière and its almost mirror image in Picasso's Olga in an Armchair. Ingres' masterpiece The Turkish Bath was one of Picasso's icons, and bits of it recur constantly in Picasso's work - in the 1906 The Harem, 1918's The Bathers, in jokey etchings of 1968-71. In 1968, Picasso also did a series of erotic and scatological etchings based...
...devising ways to break bad habits. The method, which relies partly on videos of other couples using the technique, is continually tweaked in light of new research, says Stanley. "The idea was to build a program for couples that was based on sound research," he says, "rather than armchair clinical speculation...
This is how I came to possess a Christmas picture that I had never seen before. My father is reclining on the living-room floor, his back propped up against an armchair, reading from The Night Before Christmas. He is flanked by my brother Ron and me, in our pajamas, listening to this timeless tale. The photograph isn't dated, but it looks as if my brother is about 4 and I am 10. I'm assuming my mother took the picture, although she doesn't remember...