Word: cluster
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...aware of vast spaces above you. Gradually, as you become accustomed to the artificial dusk, it takes form. Cables as thick as your arm snake over the floor and up the walls, black and viny. High up, just below a barely discernible ceiling, banks of unused lights cluster like hard dark fruits. And you are aware that this shadowy jungle is alive; figures appear and disappear, slipping swiftly through the darkness, deftly dodging the coiled cables...
...corridor with a gently undulating ceiling leads to a sitting room filled with abstract art, then a smoking room whose circular walls flow inward at one point to form a cluster of seats in the shape of half-moons. The stark white dining room, which seats 24, shines under a luminous ceiling studded with 7,000 glass stalactites. The lighting can be altered from very bright to intime. Out of view but also done over is the ancient kitchen; heretofore state banquets have been catered affairs. The French press unanimously applauded Pompidou's devastating coup de main. Someone recalled...
Died. Marianne Moore, 84, America's premier poetess and baseball fan; in Manhattan. Born in suburban St. Louis, Miss Moore graduated from Bryn Mawr, taught for a time, but soon discovered her vocation: writing meticulously crafted poems in which, as she once said, "the words simply cluster like chromosomes." A consummate alchemist at turning trivia into metaphysical gold, Miss Moore was once described by Robert Lowell quite simply as "the best woman poet in English." She often celebrated in verse the serendipitous loves of her active life: Brooklyn, the Dodgers, animals, plants, tricorn hats, health foods, the subway. Sprightly...
Around this ill-matched pair cluster ranks of middle-aged lovers and seekers, winners and mostly losers, caught in the "horrible, messy world of quarreling and forgiving." As the book runs its course, there are endless realliances of romance and necessity, suicide attempts, fatal mishaps, missing persons, blackmail. Cutting from character to character in short sequences, the author builds suspense reliably and often ingeniously. In the end, however, only Ludwig, who must choose between "unreason and dishonor," seems to have faced a true crisis. In leaving Gracie and sailing home, he achieves integrity after a long struggle...
...make moral distinctions between investments in firms heavily committed to defense and those only slightly involved. Examples: The United Church of Christ, the United Presbyterian Church and especially the United Methodist Church are stockholders in Honeywell, with nearly 21% of sales to the military, including antipersonnel weapons like cluster bombs. On the other hand eight churches cited hold stock in Texaco, with a mere 1.3% of its sales to the military. In implying that all military production is immoral-a highly dubious assumption-the report totally ignores the view of those Christians, undoubtedly a majority, who believe that defense still...