Word: fuses
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...came not a moment too soon. Observed a top international banker in London: "The situation is fraught with peril. There are only potential sellers of dollars out there, no buyers at all." Added Giuseppe Tome, an investment banker in Geneva: "The feeling exists in the banking community that a fuse has been lighted in world finance. No one is yet predicting an imminent explosion or panic, but if one does come, people will hardly be surprised...
...rapidly in water. For joining different pieces, they developed several methods, including a sophisticated process also known to Etruscan and Greek goldsmiths; it is called granulation, a form of oxygenless welding in which a drop of copper acetate (made by dissolving copper in vinegar) and glue was used to fuse the gold...
...refused to take his art seriously: it was too showy and volatile for him.) His homages to Matisse never ended. Matisse's insistence on achieving structure through local color contrast lies behind Bruce's post-cubist compositions of 1916, in which he tried, not altogether successfully, to fuse color with the implied movement of sculpture and the actual movements of jazz dance...
...about apartheid--they have to go deeper," she snorts. The writer can make others feel, and the emotional depth necessary to convey such experience comes from a writer's internal commitment, she says. "Commitment takes over from within--it's the point at which the inner and outer world fuse." Commitment is the process of making moral decisions on grounds frustratingly ambiguous and clouded...
...Kern, Richard Rodgers, George Gershwin, Frank Loesser, Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim, to name but a few. Beginning with the first modern musical, Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II's Show Boat (1927), these writers have created a durable and increasingly versatile native art form. Broadway musicals at their best fuse music, dance, drama and plain old show biz into total theater...