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...television ads. He may see the race as a grudge match against telegenic former Phoenix Mayor Terry Goddard, a Democratic candidate who fought his high-rise development. "Goddard is all glitzy veneer, all ambition, the John Lindsay of Arizona," says Symington. "Remember how New York went off the cliff...
Hard-core climbing buffs may soon be able to approximate such death-defying thrills indoors. In Chicago, a new cliff will soar a breathtaking eight stories from base to summit, and the French are experimenting with ever more realistic simulations of the rugged outdoors, complete with frozen indoor waterfalls...
...takes. But engage in civil discourse? Forget about it. You want to win, you follow the polls. Supporting the death penalty is just the epitome of the syndrome. It's the shepherds following the sheep, without stopping to think about what happens when the sheep get to the cliff...
...Collor, the challenge is to persuade his citizens that the current reform plan is not like all the others, to be abandoned when things get tough. "I am driving a packed bus at 150 km per hour, headed for a cliff," Collor told a group of legislators last week. "Either we put on the brakes and some people get a little bruised up, or we go over the edge...
...could such an endlessly complicated form as this Gothic facade, with all its peaks, hollows, spires, bosses and moldings, be so fully rendered in terms of color and the space that color creates? Monet's control is astounding. With the sun behind it, the facade is a looming cliff of blue shadows; as the light moves onto its face, it becomes a stupendously intricate cellular structure, a vertical reef of stone, its grain and warmth evoked by the texture of the paint, flushed by radiance, in which every last touch of pigment seems operative...