Word: fleetingness
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Perhaps not, Democrats counter, but the exquisite closeness of November's election - not just in the presidential race, but for many congressional seats as well - signals a lack of consensus among voters, and certainly negates any mandate claimed by either party. Congressional observers predict Democrats will return to this logic...
A new study released yesterday by Robert A. Stickgold, assistant professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, suggests that without sleep, a person's memory of dates and places is only fleeting.
Memory and preservation are familiar themes for Hulsey. Back in her room, the walls are plastered with old painting and silk-screen projects. Some of the most interesting ones play with repeated photographic images, printed one after another in bright, messy hues. Hulsey particularly likes one piece in which she...
But occasionally the muse is indulgent, and when it works, it's irresistible. Sliding the bar and working the pedals adds a quicksilver fluidity to the sound of picked notes, and the richness of the chords makes their guitar counterparts sound puny and one-dimensional. Stumbling through a transcription of...
While the final recount is completed, the hanging chads tabulated, the overseas ballots enumerated and the lawsuits filed, resolved and dismissed, we have a fleeting chance to stop and ask what -- if anything -- we can learn from this wonderful, ridiculous, improbably close first election of the new millennium?