Word: buttons
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...only way to fully solve a problem and move past it is to face it directly and not passively. As my shrewd red-haired friend says, the most important thing we learn from James Bond movies is that you only live twice. And you should only hit the snooze button once...
Within an hour, Gonzalez had taken to the stage. He had traded his old sweatshirt for a black button-up; a little more “rockstar.” He wore a guitar around his neck and let sweat pour into his eyes. When he played, he stared at the floor...
...determine if a button or sextant is permeable, the investigators place the object in a container filled with neon, then later examine the item with a mass spectrometer to see if neon has entered it. If the object proves snug, its carbon dioxide is analyzed. Such an operation may require drilling a small hole through the antique object, but surprisingly, museum curators have not protested. Says Ogard: "Most have said it's fine as long as it's not in an obvious place...
This one came close to that. "I'm a Hermann German," proclaimed a large button pinned to a medium-size woman waving from a small platform as the World Series Special pulled into Hermann, Mo. She was the only absolute partisan spotted in a week. Across the state, everyone decked out in red or blue appeared to have either a touch or at least a tolerance of the other color. More than gracious, St. Louis was as fretful as Kansas City for the well-being of Third Baseman George Brett when, near the finish of the fifth game, he went...
...much as they have widened in scope. In recent years, they've become great swathes of blue across which his themes of exile and emancipation play out. While appealing to corporate collections - "that's how you make influence," notes curator Binghui - he hasn't shied away from hot-button issues like asylum seekers. "There was a moment when he was a Chinese artist living in Australia, then he became a Chinese-Australian artist, and now he's an Australian artist," says dealer Sherman. At Guan Wei's most recent show last year, Cate Blanchett became a collector. "She spent hours...