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Humankind has not yet invented the right punctuation for Beyonce Knowles. No comma or period can contain her exuberant idiom; no semicolon can keep her from her meandering linguistic path. In the middle of her runaway sentences, Beyonce usually interrupts herself with deep, rolling spasms of laughter. Whether the subject is her tendency to forget lyrics while performing, her lack of time to devote to a boyfriend or her profound inability to play guitar, every utterance arrives with its own disruptive laugh track. Then there are the pauses--earnest, eyes-drifting-into-future-space jobs that can stretch...
...look flat; those that ought to be flat (stripes, waves) bulge or recede. After bursting into color in 1967, Riley used the way the eye sees the ghost of a shade's opposite (green-red, turquoise-orange) to make hallucinatory hues. In Veld (1971), diagonal stripes in vivid green contain narrow stripes of white, bordered by infinitesimal lines of red - but you could swear the white was yellow. From jazzy stripes she moved on to paler, pastel ripples. Undulations of pink, lilac, jade and ochre make Song of Orpheus 5 (1978) positively pretty, even gentle. Inspired by a visit...
When the Bugbear.b virus, which hit campus June 6, infects a machine, it sends messages to recipients on an individuals’ address book and past message history. In addition to a virus-laden attachment, such e-mails often contain text fragments from files on that machine, which may include documents and private correspondence...
...President Bush made good on his promise. Many saw the document as deeply flawed. For one thing, despite being referred to as a "map," it fails even in the most general terms to specify the boundaries of the two-state separation that is its ostensible destination. But it does contain essential declarations of principle and, even more importantly, signals a new era of engagement by the only outside power capable of significantly influencing events on the ground in the region...
...While [next year’s] budget will not contain the array of new initiatives and expanded programs that have been the headline events of recent years, we are able to fund current program well without the need for cutbacks,” he wrote...