Word: mosaicism
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Michael has plenty of company. Strung out over a 240-mile stretch of the upper Mississippi, embedded in the ice like pieces of an unfinished mosaic, are 49 towboats pushing more than 600 barges with cargoes worth an estimated $150 million. Each boat carries a skeleton crew that is responsible for upkeep and for starting the engines once a day to prevent ice buildups on the propeller and the hull. "We're just baby sitting a boat," says Leo Hallinan, 40, a deckhand aboard the Ann Blessey. "If the TV ever went out, they'd have to carry...
...larger room and slightly better treatment. He saw a doctor, perused some 60,000 cards and letters that poured in from the U.S., and read books: Sidney Sheldon's Bloodline, James Michener's Chesapeake, Len Deighton's XPD, Robert Ludlum's The Parsifal Mosaic...
...providing a whirl-wind tour of Moscow, snow-covered country estates, and Russian espionage organizations. The novel Gorky Park rivals John Le Carre's Smiley's People and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy with a systematic, psychological unravelling of a bizarre mystery. Like Robert Ludlum's intricate tales, including Parsifal Mosaic, each minute the hero faces some new opposition to his quest for eclipsing the top-level "mole." This movie captures the cold tenseness central to Smith's book, mirroring the rivetting story of Russian policeman Arkady Renko's struggle to solve three seemingly inexplicable murders. Renko, like George Smiley...
...similar trend away from his earlier style, Hadzi's work has gotten progressively larger. The four major commissions he has taken on since 1978 vivify this change in their immutable grandeur. In 1978 he completed a colored granite floor mosaic and 16-foot fountain for the headquarters of Johnson Wax in Racine, Wisconsin. Three years later, at the world headquarters of Owens-Illinois in Toledo, Ohio he unveiled his mammoth 36-foot granite "Propylea," its name recalling the welcoming gates of the Acropolis...
...upheavals are rewriting the script of industrial winners and losers. The job market has become a shifting mosaic of dead ends and bright prospects. Alarmed and angry, more and more workers and politicians are calling for protectionism to keep foreign products...