Word: dreadnought
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...publishing event of the 20th century, coming right at its end, one would like to know what its plausible competitors are. In fact there aren't any. In 1969 McGraw-Hill brought out its five-volume Dictionary of Art, still useful but a mere dinghy in comparison with this dreadnought. The ur-art dictionary was begun in 1907 by two German scholars, Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker, but since the publication of its 37th volume in 1950, it has tried to do no more than issue occasional volumes of updates. Even that is a task comparable to repainting the Brooklyn...
Just look at him now. He is a campaigning dreadnought, wading into crowds from the black-earth zone of European Russia to Siberian forests, microphone in hand, bantering, pledging, urging. Wooing the youth vote in Ufa two weeks ago, his cheeks glowing, Yeltsin danced at a free rock concert, bellowing to thousands of Generation Xers, "Vote! Vote, or you'll damn well lose it all." At a state farm near Tver last week he promised workers, as he has everywhere, that he would pay their back salaries. "I'll give you the money, now that you have cornered...
...operatic dreadnought -- playwright David Henry Hwang, choreographer Quinny Sacks, set designer Robert Israel and director David Pountney are also aboard -- manages to embrace not only the explorer's first trip to the New World but also the electric dreams of Stephen Hawking, the arrival of aliens on Earth during the Ice Age, and humanity's conquest of space. Characters sing suspended in outer space, sets soar through the air like rocket ships, and the hydraulic stage heaves like waves in a storm, propelling the extraterrestrials and Columbus' crew alike toward their unknown destinations. With a commissioning fee to Glass...
...BOOKS Dreadnought's arms race would make the superpowers quiver...
...Robert K. Massie notes in Dreadnought (Random House; 1,007 pages; $35), the Portsmouth review marked "the high-water mark of British naval supremacy," which had gone virtually unchallenged since Admiral Horatio Nelson's victory over a French fleet at Trafalgar in 1805. During the latter years of the 19th century, however, France and Russia had constructed seemingly formidable armadas. More worrisome, Germany, under the prodding of Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz, was rapidly building a war fleet to protect its commercial interests and colonial empire. The naval rivalry between Britain and Germany led to an arms race that...