Word: enigmas
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...constantly creating new opportunities, pressing the ball forward past would-be defenders. Add to that her unique background, and it is no wonder that she has remained an enigma to her opponents...
...relentless pressure that had to be resisted with grit and intelligence. But when Naipaul began churning out books of reportage on the countries he visited, the fiction writer shriveled: his 1980s and '90s were dominated by journalism, with a few exceptions such as his semiautobiographical novel The Enigma of Arrival (1987). Then in 2001 came Half a Life?his first full-blooded novel in a long time. Now, at 72, Naipaul has written the sequel, Magic Seeds, which he said last week is likely to be his final book...
...suit and fedora walking through their midst and, in the background, a constellation of windows scattered across the wall of a building. It wasn't a picture about anything. It was a moment most of us would never notice, but in his eyes it became an enigma, so full of suspense, you could almost hear the click of a detonator...
...together and wins." That was true in his race for lieutenant governor of Massachusetts in 1982 and for the U.S. Senate in '84, and it was certainly true in Kerry's toughest campaign before 2004, his Senate race against Governor William Weld in '96. It is an enigma that cuts close to the essence of an intensely private man: Why does John Kerry require a near death experience to be an effective politician? I have a theory...
...opened earlier this month. (It remains there through Sept. 19, then moves on to Toronto and Washington.) But the famous charm of his art is the other explanation. He settled early upon a formula of powerful appeal, a convergence of fastidious lines and abstracted facial features, of intimacy and enigma, that made modernism inviting, even comfortable. He didn't dynamite the human form as Picasso did or distill it to its essence like Matisse. In Modigliani's work the figure doesn't look aggressively, truculently modern. Modernized is more like it, gently conformed to what would turn...