Word: nimbuses
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...Scorsese: it's a steaming Cuban sandwich of sultry Latin sirens, drug deals gone bad and seedy mobsters with big metal briefcases full of small unmarked bills. The city streets are awash with neon in candy pink and pistachio green, and each streetlight is ringed by a delicate nimbus suggesting warm, humid tropical air. The kicker is the painfully authentic all-1980s sound track (which will be released by Sony Music as a seven-CD set). Buy this game, and you will Wang Chung tonight...
...Rowling The Harry Potter author is on her way to becoming a club of one as this world's first billionaire author. While the otherworldly book series has been a pretty little earner for the British scribe - 100 million copies sold worldwide - the celluloid version has Harry's Nimbus 2000 broom and other merchandise flying off the shelves...
Over the years, some of Lindbergh's nimbus returned, partly because of his wartime service. Suffering from terminal cancer in 1973, he had himself flown to his home on Maui, where, with a strange and touching meticulousness, working from checklists, he designed his own tombstone, selected his shroud and supervised the digging of his grave--planning his own death as carefully as he had prepared for his other great flight, years earlier...
...Equivalents" (1929), provide a cushy counterpoint to such harder, clearly delineated concrete scenes. In a sense, Stieglitz taps into the age-old game of lying in the grass and picking out shapes in the sky, but with a deeper, vaguely solemn intent, as if to part the layers of nimbus and cumulus. His progression from works clearly grounded in the straightforward city to such abstraction in a sense reflects Stieglitz's attempts to broaden the "purpose" of photography...
...exceptional election when Americans are not lamenting "How did we come to this?" In 1964 Lyndon Johnson was a drawling Texas mess we inherited after ex-playboy J.F.K. was martyred into his golden nimbus. Johnson's opponent Barry Goldwater was a thermonuclear psychotic. So thought everyone to the left of Mayor Daley...