Word: mosaic
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...million citizens know but sometimes try to forget, their country is not a seamless unity but a patchwork of dissimilar people and unequal progress. Roughly the top half of the country has joined the 21st century; the rest is mired in unyielding poverty. Differences among the pieces of the mosaic have increased, and the gap between rich and poor has widened during the country's economic advance. Salinas began his six-year term in & office in 1988 by selling off hundreds of bloated state-owned companies and deregulating private industry; he tightened credit to bring inflation down from 50% annually...
Then, finally, we will have a truly just parental model for the gorgeous mosaic that is our world. Then, and only then, will I put down my picket sign on Junior parents Weekend...
Alas, not all of White Oak's New York offerings attained this standard. Mark Morris' Mosaic and United was particularly disappointing because it was Morris who choreographed several of the distinctive works that gave the group its early repertory. Morris can usually be counted on to grab an audience right away and never let go. When he errs, it's by going over the top. Mosaic is a rarity for him; it is plain dull...
...more complicated, people may find themselves relying more and more on their metaphors. The Macintosh interface has already been adapted by such network services as CompuServe and America Online (on which sending a message is like posting a note on a bulletin board). A similar Mac-like program called Mosaic is making the vast resources of the Internet increasingly accessible...
...late as the sixth century A.D., in a mosaic in Ravenna depicting the Last Judgment, the devil was still portrayed as a haloed, winged being, standing at the left hand of Christ. Satan is dressed in blue, not red, robes. (Red was the color of the upper ether, closest to God, from which Satan was expelled; blue, the color of the closest heaven humankind could see.) By the Middle Ages, however, Satan had become a beast. His horns and hooves come from his commingling with beliefs banished by a victorious Christianity. The devil's appurtenances derive from the great Greek...