Word: placidness
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...culture. Harry Belafonte, John Cage, Johnny Cash, Placido Domingo, Benny Goodman and Aaron Copland (photographed together), Anne Sexton—the list goes on, and the portraits are all agreeable to look upon. Cash, with his guitar jutting out of the page, is an interesting contrast to the placid Belafonte. But it is a juxtaposition that you will have to come to yourself—there is not a discernible pattern to the exhibit. The show’s lack of an overall theme reaches a low point with the four self-portraits of Jeffry one happens upon...
...radical factions. What brought them together was first a hatred of America for causing their resentments and frustrations, and then someone who knew how to transform their rage into bloody results. Osama bin Laden may be the top general in charge, but who are the field lieutenants? Even usually placid FBI officers called their search squads "frenzied" as they hunted last week for shadow figures who might be involved. To underscore the broad reach, at New York's Kennedy Airport Thursday, 10 people were questioned, and one was eventually held as a material witness...
...parking lot and got a preliminary sense of the magnitude. One of the orthodox Jews from Chabad Lubavitch in nearby Bedford Hills was standing outside the supermarket, talking to anyone who walked near about "these people" who did "such insane things." It was an extraordinary encounter on a serene, placid day. In the check-out line, minutes later, every woman buying groceries was comparing notes and knowledge with the others, and all were shaking their heads slowly, as was the check-out girl...
...next hurdle arrived when a cab tried to cut me off. Jay told me to floor it. “Never give in to the ‘Yellow Daemons!’” he yelled. I sensed a hint of latent road rage in my externally placid driving instructor...
Harvard defenseman Angela Ruggiero ’02-04 and Harvard captain-elect Jaime Hagerman ’03 were among 45 athletes selected for the 2001 U.S.A. Hockey Women’s National Team Festival, which will be held in Lake Placid, N.Y. from...