Word: dusts
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...something endlessly representative of their characters and lives, searching for the vulnerable, the revealing, the truth. Unfortunately, his work in landscapes or scenes of everyday lives does not approach the power of his portraits. While “Calgary, Alberta: Stampede” contains the haze of chaos and dust and the struggle between frightened horse and tense man, images such as this one are the antithesis of the clean and strongly contrasting black and white portraits. “Stampede” and other works from the Canadian Cities Project are unfocused, unclean, and inscrutable. The exception to this...
...Cindy is the heiress to an Anheuser-Bush beer distributor fortune, that's probably not a surprise. But an ad that manages to humorously skewer the Bush Administration's record while subtly tying it to McCain's (Stone is watching a McCain speech in the spot's open) and dust off a fondly-remembered if little-mourned catchphrase? That's sure to give a few Joe Sixpacks pause. True...
...fitting end to what has been a remarkably bubbly period for London. Over the past decade and a half, ever since its last protracted downturn, the British capital has transformed itself into Europe's indispensable financial center. Leaving Frankfurt and Paris in the dust and encouraged by the policies of Gordon Brown, the current British Prime Minister, it has become a magnet for people, jobs and investment from around the world. The big U.S. banks made London their international hub, and the major banks of continental Europe moved much of their trading and investment-banking operations there. About...
...part poem that lists the things that divide man to show the consequences of these divisions. Each terse one-word phrase becomes packed with meaning, emphasizing the divided nature of the concepts they represent: “Grid / coordinates. Maps. Longitude. Latitude. Property lines drawn / in unconsecrated dust.” War is both a calculated affair deployed from a bunker and a personal conflict between two neighbors...
...same moment Iceland, a NATO member and until very recently a prosperous Western nation, seemed ready to bite the dust in the global financial crisis, a cavalry rode to the rescue, just as it does in the movies. Except the cavalry in this case came from an unexpected direction: Russia...