Word: floating
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...brushstrokes have turned into mighty walls of color bright enough to divert low-flying aircraft, a Lilliputian touch is welcome. Such is the mark of Italy's Gianfranco Baruchello, 41, whose works seem painted with a brush one millimeter wide to produce meticulous yet mysterious images that float across glossy white panels like microbes creeping from an infested imagination...
...best poems in the book describe Brazil, where Poet Bishop has kept a pied à terre since 1952, and describe it in images that blazon the retina long after the book is closed. In "The Armadillo," for instance, she pictures the "frail, illegal fire balloons" that during Holy Week float up from Brazilian villages into the starry darkness, where they "flare and falter, wobble and toss" like fiery little moons in a mist...
What the entrepreneur should do, many millionaires advise, is "launch an enterprise in a market where either nobody is doing anything or the leaders are not very good." As soon as his business begins growing sturdy and prosperous, the owner should either float a stock issue to expand it or sell it out to a bigger company that might be willing to pay generously for a well-established specialty business. With his profits, plus any borrowing he may need, the young entrepreneur can then buy control of a still more promising business...
...happy accident occurred, said Dr. C. Thomas Flotte (pronounced Float), while he was treating a patient with a clot in one of the renal veins. Dr. Flotte took a presurgery blood sample, and the laboratory reported a cholesterol level of about 400 mg., or double the normal. During the operation, the patient received a pint of dextran, both to maintain his blood volume and to reduce clotting. Then he got a pint a day for two days. Dr. Flotte sent a fresh blood sample to the lab and got back a cholesterol reading...
...neatly managed to hold onto the nation's highest office - primarily by nudging aside everyone who could have taken it away from him. Rather than lead the country, charge his critics, Kasavubu just sits on the terrace of the presidential mansion "watching the bodies of his enemies float past in the Congo River below." Last week who should go floating past but his fourth Premier, Moise Kapenda Tshombe...