Word: float
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...undeterred by the three-year prison sentence such an effort could carry. "I am happy to go to jail for it," he says. - By Jan Stojaspal House ahoy! Road ahoy! The Netherlands After centuries of finger-in-the-dike battles to keep water at bay, the Dutch are floating a different strategy. Why not live, work, shop - even drive - on the water? Builders in the Netherlands aren't thinking houseboats, but wood-and-aluminum constructions that float atop huge pieces of polystyrene encased in concrete. Six prototype homes have been towed to Ijburg, near Amsterdam. Imported from Canada, the concept...
...There’s something very liquid and floating about it which makes it very different from all the other paintings,” Cooper says. “You can float into the image...
...also allowed us as collaborators to kind of meet in the middle, 'cause I'm not Cuban." Mambo Sinuendo has moments where it sounds like the sound track to a particularly cool Havana nightclub, but the two players achieve a dynamic so loose and easy that they also float over Africa, Mexico, Hawaii and Birdland, incorporating whatever style catches their ears...
...www.yugop.com (Warning: don't do this on a day when you have to get anything else done. It's addictive.) The Web was designed by scientists as a way to share data, but Nakamura uses it to share something more profound: a sense of playfulness. Words and images float freely across the screen or follow the cursor like schools of curious minnows. Images bulge and distort or blow away as if in a high wind. A clock ticks off seconds with a hand frantically stacking and unstacking toy wooden blocks. Words shatter into their component letters at the click...
...radio and on TRL, where their music can ensnare young listeners who think Avril Lavigne is just about as punk as they come. But for a fresher taste of a woman’s boot in your mouth, pick up any of the Donnas’ earlier albums, and float back to a time when the band’s musical future was even more solid than their guitar riffs...