Word: lateraling
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...began a picture with something like a realistic scene, then distilled it repeatedly. This is what happened with his magnificent Bathers by a River. When he started the large wall painting in 1909, it was a panorama of voluptuous women in bright colors. When he finished it seven years later, the women were angular and anonymous, the setting radically flattened, and the river had become another of those vertical black bands, with a stark white snake shooting upward along it like a bent poker...
...title of Remnick's opus refers to the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala., the bloody origin point of a tide that swept the first black President into office 44 years later. But it is also an apt name for the story of Barack Obama's arc from youthful ambivalence to adult ambition, his struggle to reconcile his biracial roots and his attempt to build a political identity based on consensus rather than insistence. Remnick, editor of the New Yorker, has written an expansive work, as much an account of the forces that forged Obama's identity and intellect...
...Later, in Phoenix, Palin headlined a McCain fundraiser at the Biltmore hotel, where she once clashed with his aides about whether she would be allowed to deliver her own concession speech on the final night of the 2008 campaign. (In the end, she wasn't.) Most of the campaign advisers who viewed Palin as untrustworthy and erratic have left McCain's orbit, and his current aides were delighted to apply her star power to their troubled cause. With Palin in the state, they collected e-mail addresses for follow-up contact, raised several hundred thousand dollars and attracted the kind...
...female suicide bombers struck Moscow's subway system during the Monday-morning commute, killing at least 39 people in the worst terrorist attacks to hit the city in six years. Ever since the two bombed stations were reopened later the same day, stunned Russians have wandered the damaged platforms, laying flowers and stopping to touch shrapnel gashes in the stone walls. Officials have placed blame for the attacks on Islamist rebels from regions like Dagestan, where two more suicide blasts killed at least 12 people Wednesday morning. The leading rebel warlord in those regions, Doku Umarov, who has been linked...
Instrumental in developing Wide World of Sports in the nascent years of ABC Sports, Chet later headed NBC Sports and had a guiding hand in numerous technical innovations, such as the use of instant replay. And, again with the fan in mind and at heart, he hired a Koufax, a Kubek, and several other great sports names as commentators. With two networks behind him, Chet then went to ESPN, becoming the 24-hour sports channel's first president in 1979. "What lies ahead for cable television is incalculable," he said. How right...