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...Taking stock of the new mood, General Sonthi announced after the protests that he didn't mind if Buddhism was added to the constitution, so long as the move promoted peace in Thailand. Other junta members said they would not stand in the way of a state religion. The lack of government opposition is likely a sign of a weakened leadership aiming to please the public, rather than a reflection of personal zealotry...
...according to O.E.C.D. statistics, the U.K.'s national income per capita exceeded France's for the first time, and since then the gap has widened. Brits, long the poorer neighbors, are now on average 10% richer than the French. That's one important factor feeding a deepening mood of pessimism about the future in France - a mood that Sarkozy is pledging to change...
...Economic Co-operation and Development, Britain's national income per capita exceeded France's for the first time, and since then the gap has grown sharply. Brits, long the poorer neighbors, are now on average 10% richer than the French. That's one important factor feeding a deepening mood of pessimism about the future in France--a mood that Sarkozy is pledging to change...
...essence of coastal New England and the odd corners of Manhattan. The strange solitude in his pictures, which has nothing to do with the regional or picturesque, is much more evident to us now. Even in his stalwart houses presenting themselves silently against blue sky, there's that mood of isolation so unnerving that it was a simple matter for Alfred Hitchcock to put it to his own uses in Psycho, in which an outline evoking every Hopper house lingers just behind the Bates Motel...
Hopper once said his goal as a painter was to achieve "the greatest possible austerity without the loss of emotion." He might have added that the emotion would be a dry-eyed and somewhat mysterious melancholy. And that this would be a part of the national mood we would recognize as soon as we saw it. Even if we didn't know quite what to make...