Word: dust
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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When the Viscountess Felicity Fabreigh opened her eyes the following morning, she was still in deshabille. She lay there awhile on the floor, watching the specks of dust floating in the sunlight that streamed through the casement. The morning caressed her stomach and thighs, which, as they usually did, looked perfect. Her head ached. She could not form a coherent thought.But with consciousness came recollection, and the images of the night just past swarmed to confront her: the empty decanter of brandy, her dead turtle Orlando, and, looming above all else, he who had wronged her once again. She could...
...relationships and their effects. In the striking “My Sister and My Grandson,” Paley’s understatement truly gets to the core of feeling: “I have been talking to my sister she / may not know she’s been dust and ashes / for the last two years I talk to her / nearly every day.” Here there is no soapbox, only a frighteningly casual realization of mortality tempered with the constant desire to avoid death. Such ideas may not be new, but the understatement makes them as tangible...
...dust-up within the government couldn't have come at a worse time for Sarkozy, who earlier this week traveled across France announcing cut-backs and belt-tightening - despite previous assurances that "no austerity program" was on the way. But despite having to deliver bad news to an already hurting public, Sarkozy had some reason for hope. Polls released early this week showed his approval rating rising to 40% in March from February's 37%, the low point in what had been his 30% drop since July. The fillip stemmed from Sarkozy's triumphant state visit to London last month...
...paper to express something." He is also helping to publish the nation's first anthology of up-and-coming comic-book artists, (Re)géné Rations: The New Khmer Graphic Novel, due in June. In so doing, Séra and his collaborators are blowing the dust off a subculture that has endured decades of neglect...
...place better exemplifies Poland A - Tusk's Poland - than the western university town of Wroclaw, which voted overwhelmingly for him. Poland's fourth largest city, situated on the Oder River close to the German border, was neglected under communism, its Gothic architecture blackened by coal dust and its shop shelves bare. Nowadays, the elegant old market square in the city center, once the site of a few scruffy museums, is lined with designer shops, sushi bars and restaurants. Companies from LG Philips (LCD screens) to Google (service support) have poured $5 billion into the local economy in the past five...