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...ball signifying the earth, a chakra or disc symbolizing power and a conch betokening water and the origins of existence--are the embodiment of serene control. Yet there is immense physical energy contained in some Khmer pieces, like the 10th century pediment from Banteay Srei, a marvel of crisp carving and design in which the epic hero Bhima is seen leaping into the air to strike down his enemy...
...flak he took for intervening in the baseball strike two-and-a-half years back, won't be stepping up to this plate any time soon. It's enough to make you go back to the U.S. Postal Service. First a FedEx jet crashes and burns to a crisp in Newark, leaving all packages on board well done. Now a United Parcel Service walkout has managers handling a small fraction of usual deliveries, as the stalemate becomes a stage for the Labor vs. Corporate America battle over the use of part-time workers to cut costs and stay competitive...
...basses set an appropriately crisp beat in the Beethoven and later in Brahms' Third Symphony, but no other strings showed any desire to match their attention. Adding embarrassment to injury, the first violins and cellos clearly faked several sections in the first movement, including the arpeggios that accompany the main theme...
This new music has the vigor of youth--McLachlan is 29, Jewel just 23--and yet it echoes with sounds of three decades past: the crisp emotionality of Joni Mitchell, the artful lyrics of Bob Dylan. While rooted in acoustic folk, it draws freely on blues, jazz and even hip-hop. "There's no such thing necessarily as a folk song or pop song," says jazz singer Wilson. "What it is is not as important as how you do it, and how you do it is not as important...
...angle of less than 3[degrees], plenty flat enough to allow the rover to disembark. The solar arrays were being bathed by sun and were producing all the power the spacecraft needed. That same sun, however, was providing little heat: the temperature at Ares Vallis was a crisp -64[degrees]F. But Pathfinder, built to function in that kind of killing cold, seemed unaffected. "I'm ecstatic," said flight systems manager Brian Muirhead as the stream of healthy signals poured into J.P.L. "This is way beyond our expectations...