Word: nimbus
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...into receivership. Although the filing will buy the family time, it will do little to end the international row over Maxwell's assets. The Maxwell empire, which ranges from such highly visible publications as New York City's Daily News and London's Daily Mirror to tiny entities like Nimbus Records, is the subject of investigations on both sides of the Atlantic, notably a criminal probe by Britain's Serious Fraud Office (SFO). About 30 banks and other creditors are lining up in what promises to be a bruising humbug. Says Smith Barney analyst John Reidy: "Robert Maxwell left behind...
MISA FLAMENCA (Nimbus). Guitarist Paco Pena has adapted the texts of the Roman Catholic liturgy and set them to the extroverted melodic and rhythmic emotions of flamenco to compose this earthy, passionate Mass. His musicians and singers charismatically express love of freedom, resignation under oppression and an unconquerable faith that soars from an anguished soul...
...journeying, not burrowing in, is Raban's job. He returns to it just in time, with a roguish last chapter set offshore in the Florida Keys. He has rented a sailboat, and the wind is up, and banks of low nimbus clouds are swarming in from the northwest. Out of sight, the Key West highway is clogged with tourists, but that's their problem. Raban's narrative scuds toward the open sea, and the beguiled reader, as always at such moments, makes plans: sell the house, buy a boat. A case of salsa and a gallon of rum. How hard...
While wondering vaguely why hatred is not one of the Seven Deadly Sins (Is it covered under Wrath?) and why the Old Testament is so full of hate, I ; stared at the back of Nelson Mandela's head as he sat at the conference table -- a nimbus of television light around his charcoal hair, the man enveloped in utter stillness, the most thorough self-possession I have ever beheld. Does 27 years in prison make a man so calm? As I listened to Gunter Grass (a stolid German with some huge gravity pulling him earthward) discussing the Nazis, my mind...