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...boils down to a question of character, and that character is complex. As partygoers at Labour's Manchester congress discovered, Brown doesn't do small talk. In interviews, too, he repudiates seductive sound bites in favor of considered responses that can leave eyelids drooping as the 10th subclause gives way to an 11th. Presentation is important, he concedes in an interview with Time, but he wishfully senses a new appetite for substance: "The issues and the challenges are greater and more global than they were 10 years ago. I think the electorate expects people in public life to address these...
...broke out first among the overwhelmingly Hindu sepoys, the British prosecutor argued that "to Musalman intrigues and Mohammedan conspiracy we may mainly attribute the dreadful calamities of the year 1857." Like some of the ideas propelling more recent adventures in the East, this was a bigoted oversimplification of a complex reality...
...fireworks, meanwhile, would be "the best star show in the history of modern civilization," says astronomer Mario Livio of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore. But after many months, the light would flicker out, and Eta Carinae would be no more. [This article consists of a complex diagram. Please see hardcopy of magazine.] When Stars Die ? Our Sun ? Supernovas ? The Superstars
Hopper can bring to mind Robert Frost, another complex operator who was drafted into the role of corn-fed American. Like Frost, Hopper possessed a sophisticated aesthetic camouflaged by the apparent simplicity and straightforwardness of his art. It's true that he wanted American painting to stop taking its marching orders from France. But he was never the honking cultural isolationist that Thomas Hart Benton became, thundering on about the perversities of European art and the prancing New Yorkers who bought into it. By contrast, Hopper made it to Paris no fewer than three times from...
...broke out first among the overwhelmingly Hindu sepoys, the British prosecutor argued that "to Musalman intrigues and Mohammedan conspiracy we may mainly attribute the dreadful calamities of the year 1857." Like some of the ideas propelling more recent adventures in the East, this was a bigoted oversimplification of a complex reality...