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...when we go upstairs to consult the Weather Channel, we settle down, as cozy gods do, to hover high above the earth and watch the map with a divine perspective. Moist air labeled L for low rides up the continent from the Gulf of Mexico and collides with the high that has slid down from the North Pole. And thus is whipped up the egg-white fluff on the studio map that, down in the frozen, messy world, buries mortals...
While Brown's 42 percent far outpaces Harvard's numbers, Harvard has more female associate professors than do a number of other universities. Female associate professors at Columbia and Stanford hover around 28 percent, Princeton has 30 percent and Yale and the University of Michigan are a point below Harvard, at 33 percent...
...American painting, ThreeAmerican Painters: Kenneth Noland, Jules Olitski,Frank Stella (1965) and to publish what quicklybecame the signal statement on the new paintings'style and purpose. At the same time, he acquiredfor the Fogg our first paintings by thatgeneration, Morris Louis' Color Barrier and BlueVeil, and Kenneth Noland's Hover and Karma (giftof the artist...
When Capitol Hill revolutionaries vow to lift millions of Americans off the dole and into the work force, this is where they would land first, among the more than 10 million Americans who hover one rung above welfare on the nation's "ladder of opportunity." These are people who tiptoe between paychecks and have no savings, who ride the bus to the discount stores, who sell their plasma until their veins scar, who don't bother to clip coupons for Cheerios because the generic version is still cheaper, and who can be wiped out by even a minor medical problem...
...Diamond: "Are you on anything? How do I know you're not poppin' speedballs?" And so it goes on politically perplexing insult radio. "A lot of talk-show hosts are opportunistic twits," says David Brudnoy, the gay libertarian (with AIDS) at Boston's WBZ. And the listeners hover on the brink of a solipsism: that they and they alone know the answer. No one says, 'I don't believe in my doctors anymore so I'll take out my own appendix.' But with politics, somehow we don't need any experts...