Word: lucid
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...guide for three large faces drawn faintly in graphite on the white walls. In the center of the space, Ireland placed a text which melds the words of Muldoon, Marcel Proust, and Roland Barthes. It has attracted diverse crowds—artists with cuffed pants having conversations on lucid dreaming, wandering children, a man who looked at the seemingly blank walls and inquired when the gallery was going to install the exhibit. “We’re starting to tell the artists that if you leave the door open, you’re probably going to get people...
...Twitter. Because nothing spells commitment like 140 characters of lucid, compelling argument, there's a new Tweet Your Senator page on BarackObama.com, the website maintained by the Democratic National Committee. Here, you can log-in and send one of a half a dozen or so prewritten tweets to your state's Senators. And for your trouble, you get to see your picture and tweet pop up on a map of the U.S. Shiny! (Follow TIME on Twitter...
...imagine that if his teachers had encouraged him to write about his painful private life, P would now be even more at home in his lucid streams of consciousness...
...Libby had taken the fall for him in the Fitzgerald probe. In his grand-jury testimony reviewed by TIME, Libby denied three times that Cheney had directed him to leak Plame's CIA identity in mid-2003. Though his recollection of other events in the same time frame was lucid and detailed, on at least 20 occasions, Libby could not recall details of his talks with Cheney about Plame's place of employment or questions the Vice President raised privately about Wilson's credibility. Some Bush officials wondered whether Libby was covering up for Cheney's involvement in the leak...
Over the past decade or so, Piano has become one of the most sought-after architects in the U.S., especially for museum commissions. In Houston, Atlanta, New York City, San Francisco and Fort Worth, Texas, museum trustees have gone to Piano for buildings that are serene, lucid and elegantly detailed. His designs may not push the envelope, but they seal it with a kiss. His best buildings have a delicacy inseparable from their tensile power. As Piano likes to say, "Beauty is not romantic. Beauty is very strong." Put in those terms, it would be fair to say that...