Word: lightness
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...seen at the National Gallery of Australia. "From the first, the enchantments of the sky there, the fish, and the coral in the lagoons, plunged me into the inaction of total ecstasy," Matisse would recall. "The local tones of things hadn't changed, but their effect in the light of the Pacific gave me the same feeling as I had when I looked into a large golden chalice...
...Gates has no options. The U.S. has badly damaged both Iraq and itself, and it is simply time to bring the troops home. Military powers can no longer invade and successfully occupy other countries. Readily available explosives, lethal light arms and portable rockets can give any group of determined insurgents and suicide bombers the tools to defeat a foreign army, no matter how militarily superior it may be. If we want to change the world for the better, we must lead by example and by helping, not by bullying with our armed forces. John Hilberry New York City...
...latter (famously committing seppuku in 1970), Hosoe was able to tame his darker promptings and channel his creativity toward life-affirming ends. He found satisfaction in teaching - becoming a professor at the Tokyo Institute of Polytechnics in 1975 - while perfecting a photographic style characterized by consummate control of light and shadow. Themes as diverse as the architecture of Gaudi and the fragility of life in a nuclear age informed his work...
...Springsteen concert. It was a class society, and we were among the elite. As we strolled through restricted areas, the crowd a few feet away waved their sausage balloons imploringly at us. To indulge them, I engaged in a brief but vigorous Stephen-Colbert-as-Tek-Jansen light-saber duel with one or two of them. It seemed they were having a splendid time...
...only that, but according to the MIT Technology Review, researchers are developing ways to make the little rascals friendlier - injecting bits of DNA into bacteria to make them "glow, detect light," or even smell sweet. "Minty-fresh foot fungus" is projected as a real possibility. Of course, so was democracy in Iraq, but why drag that...