Word: cliff
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...visited the Yosemite Valley and was given his first camera. As a young man, he worked as a custodian there and took long hikes through the mountains. "I know of no sculpture, painting, or music that exceeds the compelling spiritual command of the soaring shape of the granite cliff ..." he wrote in his autobiography, adding that he wanted to establish Yosemite as "a sanctuary." For much of his life he fought to protect the places he loved, using his photographs as a lobbying tool...
...dropped 179 points by the end of the day. By now people know that capitalism is a spectacle of hope and greed and guts and guile, all racing toward the bottom line. That is its genius, but without guardrails, the whole contraption can take us over a cliff. On Wednesday the Senate voted 97-0 for a program far tougher than the one the President had proposed and even the Republicans in the House were climbing aboard. Unless Congress and the President get serious about reform, Senator John McCain warned in a combative speech, "the damage done by these scandals...
...boom the way it has been. We won't get 8%, 9% annual increases in the average price of a house, but it won't collapse. It will go down to a 2%, 3% increase. I don't think it will fall off the face of a cliff...
...dropped 179 points by the end of the day. By now people know that capitalism is a spectacle of hope and greed and guts and guile, all racing toward the bottom line. That is its genius, but without guardrails, the whole contraption can take us over a cliff. On Wednesday the Senate voted 97-0 for a program far tougher than the one the President had proposed and even the Republicans in the House were climbing aboard. Unless Congress and the President get serious about reform, Senator John McCain warned in a combative speech, "the damage done by these scandals...
...brush-strokes of bright, vibrant colors. Pastoral landscapes and blooming gardens feature prominently in the exhibit, as do women and children in bucolic settings and restful poses. Sargent's In the Orchard and A Lady and a Child Asleep in a Punt Under a Willow, Robinson's On the Cliff: a Girl Sewing and Irving Ramsey Wiles' Woman Reading on a Bench portray a serene, carefree world bathed in sunshine. Two of Cassatt's pictures, Young Woman and Her Child and Sara and Her Mother Admiring the Baby, are pastels on paper. Cassatt's failing eyesight made it progressively dif.cult...