Word: compacting
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...Frazer accompanied the President to South Africa as part of a tour of the continent. They visited Senegal, Nigeria, Botswana and Uganda—countries Frazer said exemplify a “new compact of development, which focuses on ruling justly, investing in people and promoting economic freedom,” according to a column on the White House website published before the trip...
...dies, he leaves an entire landscape transformed. George Balanchine, the protean choreographer whose centenary is being celebrated this year by ballet companies the world over, left his imprint virtually everywhere in dance. Take a look at the typical American ballerina today: long, leggy, prodigiously athletic compared with the more compact, sedate ballerina of old. That?s the female figure that Balanchine cultivated - and glorified in so many of his works. Consider the prevalence today of ballets stripped of fairy-tale plots and elaborate costumes and sets - no story, just a focus on the music and movement. That?s the aesthetic...
...have to be helped around still on my two wretched sticks ? I crawl about from one room to another and try not to let me down." His long life's journey is dazzling and his pen nimble. And he is unhesitatingly honest in a treasurable series of compact character descriptions. Oscar Wilde's lover, Lord Alfred Douglas, claimed to have written most of the legendary wit's best lines: "Of course Douglas had quite lost his looks and I thought that must have been a great tragedy for him," writes Gielgud. Marlon Brando, filming Julius Caesar...
...biggest problems with home photo printers is that the results have too much of a sketchy, do-it-yourself quality. Now, printing digital pictures at home just got more appealing, thanks to two new compact photo printers, from Olympus and Sony. Both hook up directly to a digital camera, eliminating the fuss of connecting to a PC. They use a printing process called dye sublimation, which heats the ink and vaporizes it into the photo paper. The result: glossy, 4-in.-by-6-in. prints that are virtually indistinguishable from the ones you get from a professional photo lab. Even...
Somewhere buried deep beneath Pennypacker Hall, in the coffins of WHRB’s Record Hospital, sits a compact disc without liner notes; they fell out long ago. Now white labels cover the case, with the scrawling of many hands over every square inch. The record is Zopilote Machine by the Mountain Goats, and the writing logs every date and time a Record Hospital disc jockey experienced a moment of epiphany listening to the soaring “Going To Georgia”—to this day the most powerful song in the Goats’ prolific catalog...