Word: float
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...settlements already negotiated, much less new ones. Bernard Cardinal Law, under fire for years of covering up parish priests' sexual misconduct, has vowed not to raid collection plates, bingo nights or the church's ambitious $300 million capital fund-raising effort. Instead he's leaning on wealthy donors to float a special $25 million sex-abuse fund, looking at well-to-do lay fraternities like the Knights of Columbus for loans, and itemizing the properties in the church's rich portfolio that he can sell. Topping the list: the Archbishop's elegant residence. But press reports suggest the Boston church...
...shave me, Jesus can't save me," he growls on the superb Dog Faced Boy). Which is not to say he's snide; Friendly Ghost and Woman Driving, Man Sleeping are as sweet as anything in the James Taylor songbook--they're just not saccharine. The lyrics float over an array of power chords, samples, overdubs and scratches--no two songs sound alike--but it's not musical bricolage. Just the best album so far this year...
...Beland's drawing style enhances the light and happy tone. Rendered in black and white, his fat lines are all soft curves that form simple but recognizable caricatures. The expressive figures have an animated look that may remind you of Warner Brothers cartoons. The eyebrows float around the character's heads like caterpillars dangling from invisible threads. Beland also keeps the layouts nicely varied but always easy to read...
...Lily float...
Lyons is an architect's textbook, where the oldest Roman theater in France (circa 1st century B.C.) is only a fossil's throw from a vast urban-renewal project that will include a science museum by Austrian architects Coop Himmelblau - a dissonantly angular 21st century "crystal cloud" intended to "float" 12 m above the ground...