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...complete solution could be as much as $14 billion in federal and state money--which may be more than Washington wants to spend, and more than Baton Rouge can. But experts are also working on scaled-down remedies, including construction of a "curtain wall" that would bisect the city, creating a safe haven to which residents could evacuate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Orleans: The Big Easy On the Brink | 7/10/2000 | See Source »

...almost shyly on the left of a tender, early springtime landscape, all new green, traversed by an aqueduct (sign of the ancient Roman roots of Provence) and crossed by a pale road whose kinks are tied to the branch forms of the pine that rises in the foreground to bisect the canvas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ART: MODERNISM'S PATRIARCH | 6/10/1996 | See Source »

...bisect a line it is divided into two equal parts," she writes, adding a diagram, Jorsling does not explain any of the notes she writes on the board...

Author: By Bryan D. Garsten, | Title: Khalilah Horton Goes to School | 5/12/1993 | See Source »

...well as Wodehouse's fellow countrymen, bought some 30 million volumes of these comic fantasies, set in a neverland of unambiguous upper-class twits, where it is always a bright spring morning with nary a cloud of poverty, malice or lust? Analyzing Wodehouse is like trying to bisect a meringue. The whimsy of Blandings Castle and the Drones Club crumbles to the touch. Names like Freddie Threepwood, Oofy Prosser and Marmaduke Chuffnell lose by the listing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Six Lives, Two Centuries | 5/4/1981 | See Source »

Though he set his 20 previous novels in widely different locales, Author Graham Greene has always concentrated on a single terrain: the shadow zone where betrayal meets despair. This moral penumbra may fall across an entire country or bisect a drawing room or a double bed. Ordinary people can pass through it ignorantly and unharmed, save for the occasional grotesque accident. The only ones constantly in jeopardy are the marginal men in a skeptical century, those knowingly burdened with a soul that is eligible for damnation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Harrowing off Heaven | 5/26/1980 | See Source »

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