Word: horizons
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White. No horizon. In the distance, sky and tundra fade together into a blue-white wash. The Arctic landscape has a great many shades of white: the crystalline white of blown snow. The gray-green white of ice on the sea. The silver white of a fox's fur. The turquoise white in the northern sky an hour before the sun comes up in the south to illuminate another short winter...
...HUDS initiative on the horizon is a proposed preference survey to be distributed to all undergraduates...
...Democrats came after him a little harder this time, now that the tax cut is in their laps instead of on the horizon, but Alan Greenspan didn't get this far as an economist (and a politician) without leaving himself plenty of outs...
...which is roughly the story of Robert Downey Jr. The often-arrested Downey will face a judge later this month to answer a Thanksgiving weekend cocaine possession charge. At a January hearing, Downey's case was pushed back several weeks - a continuance that may signal a deal on the horizon. That's good news for the troubled actor: If Downey is convicted of this most recent felony, he could face more than four years in prison, although it's unlikely that his penalty will be that steep...
...answer to such questions turned out to hover somewhere between "Maybe" and "Uh, no." The lesson of the past three decades, since Minimalism hove on the horizon (soon to be followed by Conceptual Art, which even got rid of the cinder blocks and left only a residue of words), is that in art people love rarity, singularity, fully realized handcraft, fine materials and interesting content--the last not to be confused with mere storytelling. To most of them a pile of bricks a la Carl Andre is just that, a pile of bricks, and nothing, especially nothing written...