Word: mosaics
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Iranians before they acquire the makings of a nuclear device. And Iran has played its hand shrewdly so far. Tehran took weeks to reply to a formal proposal from the U.N. Security Council calling on a halt to uranium enrichment. When it did, its official response was a mosaic of half-steps, conditions and boilerplate that suggested Tehran has little intention of backing down. "The Iranians," says a Western diplomat in Washington, "are very able negotiators...
...attendant offering fine towels from Israel. Then it was on to a prep room fragrant with vanilla-scented candles, floored in Chinese tile, furnished in red cherry and featuring an eight-jet Jacuzzi - rather than the standard shower - for pre-immersion cleanliness. The mikvah itself, beneath a mosaic of a blue sky and white clouds, was pristine. Cohen's eyes widened. "It's spectacular," she gasped. "I feel like I'm at the Four Seasons...
...Benjamin Franklin Elementary School, one of the few left under the jurisdiction of the long-ailing Orleans Parish School Board, undergraduates worked on a mosaic, placing cracked tiles onto walls. Some fourth and fifth graders lent a hand...
Images of the gorgeous mosaic and gold-leaf paintings of Vienna's native son Gustav Klimt have long graced everything in Austria from chocolate wrappings to subway walls. The real things, so emblematic of Vienna's embrace of early 20th century Art Nouveau, attract tens of thousands of art lovers to the city each year. So it was with genuine dismay that Austrians woke one morning last week to discover that five of the artist's best-known works housed in the Belvedere Palace - including the famous golden portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer, the painting's original owner - were suddenly...
...group the name Fort Minor to “reflect the dynamic between opposites,” and to write all the songs on his new album. Rest assured, Shinoda hastens to assure his implausibly numerous fans that he is still “an essential shard in the mosaic of Linkin Park,” whose work is “searing.” You can sleep easy knowing that Shinoda will continue to bring his “appetite for striking new ground” to his work with Fort Minor. Never having been...