Word: bounds
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...challenges, rather unwittingly, the way race characterizes those relationships. Yet, though the ideological ramifications of the work resound, they never undermine its artistic integrity. In what was arguably the most arresting and indelible moment of the evening, six female dancers were de-robed. They glided across the stage, seemingly bound in black dresses, but then stepped back. They tilted the dresses to the left and then aligned themselves with its form, recreating the illusion that they were seamless extensions of their figures. The fallacy of the presumption that the costumes were inextricably connected to their bodies, their very selfhood, became...
...time was 5:45 am. Walking past a deserted Kennedy Center, it struck my group that in the past ten minutes we had seen several sets of blue-red police lights but not a single fellow civilian. Deserted shopping complexes and the occasional pack of home-bound partiers constituted the early morning scene at the riverbank. The light of a purring black helicopter scanned the fractured sheets coating the Potomac, while a hovercraft zipped over them, fissuring the fragile ice. I imagined the FBI sweeping in and rounding us all up for trespassing. That would be a hell...
...more intensely studied the history of “The Perfect Three-Minute Pop Song.” They are proud scholars of this history but are determined to make their own.Given this devotion, it might be easy to dismiss the album as a series of stand-alone, mixtape-bound singles. But POBPAH shows signs of craftsmanship that, while not wholly successful this time around, are evocative of a strong sense of self and suggest future promise.The album could have opened with the driving guitars and “woo woo” vocals of “Come Saturday...
...Yields are also bound to go lower because demand for U.S. government debt will easily match supply, even though Washington must sell hundreds of billions of dollars in bonds in coming months to fund stimulus measures and bank rescues. Consider the uncanny parallel between the composition of assets on bank balance sheets in 1929 and balance sheets at the start of this crisis. The ratio of loans to investments, which include Treasuries and other securities, was 2.6:1 in 1929 and 2.8:1 in 2008. During the early period of the Great Depression, banks restructured their balance sheets to reflect...
...were held up by police at a corner, and while we bounced on our toes impatiently, a motorcade turned past us. Inside a black Escalade sat the new first family. They waved. We waved. And as the car drove onwards, bound for the Miley Cyrus concert, everyone on the corner hugged each other in shock, laughing and crying and screaming, “I can’t believe...