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...painting methods are supplemented with the exhibit’s only sculpture. Titled Amazon, its smooth, dark silhouette outlines a muscular woman atop a wide-eyed horse’s back, her left hand gripping the horse’s mane while her other hand is positioned to fling a pointy spear. The moment is one of everlasting tension, freezing the Amazon’s attack at the brink of its culmination...
...ARENA, Sept. 29]. Klein reinforced the notion that political campaigns should entertain the public. Must candidates use reality-TV techniques to shock us out of complacency? When excitement becomes a criterion for choosing the President, voters will just pick the hottie of the moment and have a brief, exciting fling. Klein might have used his column to generate some energy, urging Americans to concentrate on a key issue, visit the candidates' websites or tune in to the debates, where I've seen an impressive roster of contenders--intelligent, hardworking, committed to a grueling process, quick-witted, and, yes, even entertaining...
...energizer bunnies of a practice,” said McLoon. “We kept rowing, and rowing, and rowing...but in the end, it all paid off. It paid off because of the work of every rower, in every seat of every boat, and because of [coaches] Holly [Fling] and Liz [O’Leary] and Cory [Bosworth...
Nonetheless, it is Spirit and Opportunity that are generating the most buzz, at least partly because the 6.3 billion of us left behind on Earth will be able to share the trip. As with the Pathfinder mission, NASA will fling open a trio of websites that will track the surface explorations as they unfold. Whatever the spacecraft learn, we'll learn along with them--and it could turn out to be plenty. "We have on these rovers so many capabilities that have never been present on another planet," says Steve Squyres, the missions' principal investigator. "I guarantee...
...most traditions, there are patterns at work here. At the beginning of the season, the Tigers win a game or two, and their famously demented fans predict total victory. Then, very soon, their outfielders start dropping flies, their infielders fling routine ground balls in the general direction of Mount Fuji and three Tigers runners simultaneously arrive, bewildered, at the same base. Their home-run hitter goes off to join the Detroit Tigers. Their arch-rivals, the Yomiuri Giants of Tokyo, claim the pennant. And the Tigers fans, like Japan's perennially beleaguered politicians and CEOs, promise domination next year...