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...have to take this week not only to get ready but also to work out. Because I'm going to do what I do every year--sit down in front of a TV and watch the first round. All seven hours. Not only do you have to flatten your derriere (I recommend "Buns of Steel") so you can sit for extended periods of time, you'll also be eating seven hours worth of junk food...
...tempting the gods, didn't have one) on those spring and summer evenings when the weather bulletins got ominous. Usually the excitement would be over in a half an hour or so, and we'd trudge back home, vaguely disappointed that the only twister spotted did nothing more than flatten a gas station near Osawatomie...
...much synthesis and formation as a mode of representation in which objects are viewed as though through a crystal. His images, especially in "Bird Cloud" (1926), appear refracted. Rather than showing various perspectives at once as the Cubists attempted to do, Feininger merely wanted to accentuate and flatten light planes, exaggerating them like a caricaturist would and rendering each with a different solid block of color before reassembling the pieces...
...race. Riding mostly on his flat-tax proposal, magazine mogul Steve Forbes has become the fastest-rising candidate in the contest. And he's about to get some prominent company. Next week a tax-reform commission headed by former Housing Secretary Jack Kemp will make its own proposal to flatten the federal income tax. Bob Dole, the Republican front runner and co-sponsor of the commission, is expected to endorse it. The idea is picking up so much steam that the real estate lobby is planning to broadcast radio commercials in Iowa and New Hampshire to pressure candidates...
...element is the spinning disk. As a cloud of gas and dust collapses under gravity, it spins faster and faster, like a figure skater pulling his arms in against his body as he goes into a rapid whirl. The accelerating rotation, in turn, makes the cloud flatten out into a pancake, with the highest density in the center, where the star starts to form. Unlike a solid disk -- a CD, for example -- this one rotates faster in the center than at the edges. The star, pulling in more matter as it grows more massive, should spin the fastest...