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...enough to drive advocates of a common European homeland to despair. The week's events seemed to limn perfectly the need for an almost impossibly supple concept of the Continent's future, in which clusters of E.U. states steam toward closer integration while others lag stubbornly behind. That kind of "multispeed Europe" has always been anathema to those who thought Europe should be more than an "à la carte" menu that lets members do as much or little as they liked. But it may turn out that Europe's refusal to march in lockstep toward union is a good thing...
...read a book by Jos Limn that had a chapter which encouraged further study of Mexican-American culture,” Huerta says. “I knew that’s what I wanted to do, and after some research I decided to focus on restaurants...
...album explores a single subject: their love affair. This may sound familiar, yet Into the Sun has a sturdy, radiant optimism all its own. Home and Bathtub, two of the finest songs on the record, are typical: Lennon uses the warm sounds of acoustic guitars and glowing synthesizers to limn scenes of romanticized domesticity. He draws inspiration from the curvaceous Beatle melodies of the late 1960s, but Into the Sun is an eclectic mix that wanders across genres, mutating into bossa nova, jazz, R. and B. and back again, echoing Antonio Carlos Jobim, Chet Baker, Stevie Wonder and Brian Wilson...
Morrison has argued for years that stories and storytelling convey information, necessary information, available nowhere else. She made this case again in her Nobel Prize address: "The vitality of language lies in its ability to limn the actual, imagined and possible lives of its speakers, readers, writers. Although its poise is sometimes in displacing experience, it is not a substitute for it. It arcs toward the place where meaning may lie." To read Morrison as an allegorist or a sloganeer is to overlook completely the power...
...Williamsburg, Revolutionary Boston and Philadelphia's Liberty Bell to show his "deep democratic impulse"; Clinton's aides say these stopovers lend themselves to friendly lectures on what China needs to do to measure up; critics denounce it all as crass exploitation. How Jiang handles himself through these indignities will limn the image he leaves behind...