Word: drift
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...looks like a psychedelic astral storm, raging to a soundtrack of electronic bleeps and retro '70s rock. In a 45-minute video loop, a twisting cloud vortex is projected onto a long rectangular screen, morphing through the colors of the rainbow while meteorite showers and 3-D computer incrustations drift across the foreground. "I'd like people to look at it like they'd look at a sunset," says Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, the artist responsible for Exotourisme. "I wanted to blur the boundaries between a work of art and an amusement-park ride...
...simply an earnest reflection of the gravity of our current circumstances: the competitive and critical upcoming election coupled with the startling absence of leadership approaching Wellstone’s moral caliber. In a crowd of 20,000 mourners, it is unreasonable to expect that thoughts would not drift towards the political struggles to come...
Pataki has his own potential Achilles' heel, left exposed because of his steady leftward drift. Rochester billionaire Tom Golisano, in his third Independent run for the Governor's mansion, spent $30 million winning the roughly 9,000 primary votes it took to beat Pataki for the Independence Party nomination--around $3,000 a vote. He says he is prepared to spend an additional $30 million to $40 million to get elected, aiming especially at Pataki's support in the more conservative upstate counties. In addition to slashing spending to avoid a state budget collapse (a $10 billion deficit is projected...
...make the movie, Pollack the American?and Noyce the Australian, Caine the Englishman, Fraser the Canadian and an international army of technicians led by Aussie picture-poet Christopher Doyle behind the camera?had to drift back to Vietnam. Again there were white men giving orders to yellow men, car bombs in a Saigon square, dangerous assignations in the jungle. The crew shut down Ho Chi Minh City's busiest square for a week, transforming it into the cyclo-filled Saigon of colonial days. They did the same a month later in Hanoi's Old Quarter, and then...
...Pataki has his own potential Achilles' heel, left exposed because of his steady leftward drift. Rochester billionaire Tom Golisano, in his third Independent run for the Governor's mansion, spent $30 million winning the roughly 9,000 primary votes it took to beat Pataki for the Independence Party nomination - around $3,000 a vote. He says he is prepared to spend an additional $30 million to $40 million to get elected, aiming especially at Pataki's support in the more conservative upstate counties. In addition to slashing spending to avoid a state budget collapse (a $10 billion deficit is projected...