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...Meanwhile, the security improvements that DOT has managed to put in place primarily affect private airports and planes - not exactly part of the average traveler's itinerary...
Both Signac and Seurat strove to give a noble, architectural permanence to fleeting effects by analyzing shape and light in terms of dots of color. They wanted rigor and system, not Impressionist spontaneity. Each man influenced the other; Seurat was the greater artist, but it was a real partnership. Thus it was Signac who persuaded Seurat, and not the other way round, to purify his color by banishing earth pigments from his palette. Later Signac would give up on the dot, using larger spots in a sort of mosaic. Under the influence of Turner, whose luminous watercolors and oils...
...that did not stop the airline's well-connected executives from asking the Department of Transportation for a chunk of the $15 billion airline-bailout package passed by Congress. The DOT, with encouragement from North Carolina politicians, graciously complied and cut a check for a cool, taxpayer-funded $10.8 million on Nov. 30. Industry analysts were surprised by the Midway bailout. "This sets a new and dysfunctional precedent in airline economics," says Richard Aboulafia of the Teal Group. Aviation Daily editor Michael Miller called the move "a great public-works project for the state of North Carolina." Midway Airlines...
Kolarik, though, would not be denied. He literally skated a circle around one of the Clarkson players at the left faceoff dot before changing his direction quickly and slicing in front of Walsh...
...felt myself lifted. He was carrying me to the sofa. Then I felt the length of his hard, sinewy body pressing against mine. Feebly I tried to push his hands away, but I didn’t really want to. And then—dot dot dot—we were One, capital O, exclamation mark...