Word: radiant
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...last July to fire the paper's longtime editor Serge July - one of Sartre's few remaining comrades - alienated older fans. Desperate, the editors last month launched a "readers' society," asking for donations as though the newspaper was a charity. One reader responded on the website: "Libé's radiant future is behind you," he wrote. "Adieu!" Several journalists suggest that some blame lies within the newsroom itself, which they say is filled with aging bobos - bourgeois-bohemians - who are increasingly disconnected from a multiethnic France and the country's hard-charging, careerist youth. "We are all the same kinds...
...Gotham feel—it is divided into two five-story wings which fan from a taller, and, might I add, completely useless center. Nowadays, everyone knows Sayansi because the chosen remedy to its erstwhile grunginess was to paint one wing a bright blue, and the other an equally radiant white. The two bodies of paint meet in a momentous curve that swoops from the South wing’s top floor to the base of the North wing. In a capital city full of garish wonders, Sayansi must surely occupy a top spot. Perhaps, though, the decoration was merely...
...Loeb Ex. Here is a production of Lewis Carroll’s story that retains the original’s most memorable features while imbuing them with creative freshness rather than over-analysis. The result is an extremely ambitious production that succeeds in transforming a beloved book into a radiant theatrical spectacle.The play combines material from both of Carroll’s Alice books: “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” and “Through the Looking Glass.” Director and Executive Producer John T. Drake ’06 has chosen...
...Peter's Square, beneath the encircling Bernini columns, the most vigorously gregarious of Popes rides slowly through a sea of tourists and pilgrims. It is a rite of sweet human communion. The Pope reaches out for babies in the crowd. He gently blesses the faces that give back a radiant daze of whatever it is that they see in the man--celebrity, charisma, holiness or, at least, a huge friendliness. But just there, floating from the left of the frame into the proceedings of history, like a shark's fin at the edge of a crowd splashing at the beach...
...Three Mile Island plant in 1979 and the disaster at Chernobyl seven years later. But with worldwide demand for energy rising sharply, oil spiking at more than $60 per bbl. and fears growing about the lasting impact of greenhouse gases, the outlook for nuclear power today is, well, quite radiant...