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...graced by one of the brightest rainbows I'd seen in a long time. The entire arc and a fainter, second arc were visible against the clouds above the open fields that stretched from the edge of town. One end terminated near a red-brick church spire atop what might be the town's tallest building—over six hundred years old, according to Kinga...
...crossed the finish line atop the Pyrenees on Sunday, Riccò lifted his hands up from the handlebars, kissed his two index fingers and pointed three times to his own chest, as if to say, "It's me, I'm the one." Yes, you're the one who was about to break our hearts again...
There's a beautiful high-angle shot, early in The Dark Knight, that looks down on Bruce Wayne (Christian Bale) in full Batman regalia as he perches atop a Gotham skyscraper, surveying the city he lives to protect, then leaping off and spreading his majestic bat wings to swoop down into the night. Bruce's trajectory is also the film's. It traces a descent into moral anarchy, and each of its major characters will hit bottom. Some will never recover, broken by the touch of evil or by finding it, like a fatal infection, in themselves...
...contingents that drew the loudest cheer to my delight was Google, which is where I am interning this summer. The Gayglers—gay Google employees—marched with Google-themed balloons tied around their waists or rode atop our six-person conference bicycles. Waves of adoration flowed forth from crowds, as well as screams of “Search me!” and “I’m feeling lucky...
...recent humid afternoon, Jack "Whitey" Knupp stood atop Grand Tower's levee, surveying the Mississippi. The portly 73-year-old with ruddy cheeks and a shock of silver hair spent much of his life steering barges along the river. Indeed, for years, the river produced the drama in this town's life. Pirates escaping the colonial Spaniards were among the area's first residents. Legend has it that Mark Twain frequently landed here to unload freight. Many of Grand Tower's sons took to the river's barges, hoping to escape into a relatively middle-class existence, and glimpse life...