Word: rubicon
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...Annette Lemieux's audience, the wall reappears, in pieces. "Crossing the Rubicon," her newest piece, was featured last month at the Mario Diacono gallery in Boston. In Diacono's presentation, the two canvas panels (with pencil, gesso, pumice and acrylic on the left-hand panel and water-based ink and acrylic on the right) attract the viewer out of a cube of white, bare walls. Similarly, Lemieux's piece lifts her bricks out of a blank space, penciled, then layered with textural media, delivering geometric packages of a single, double or triple artistry...
...which an Israeli plebiscite rejects a peace agreement signed by the Syrian and Israeli governments is ideal. In such a case, Syria reaps the benefits of peace and avoids the destabilizing effects of normalization with the Jewish state. On the one hand, Assad will claim he has crossed the Rubicon for peace and rightfully deserves full financial and international political support. That Israel chose not to accept his hand in peace is a shame--and not his concern...
...zone that saved the country during the 1973 War. As a former army chief-of-staff and as Israel's most decorated soldier, no one understands the value of the Golan more than Prime Minster Ehud Barak. Why then are Syria and Israel now so eager to cross the Rubicon...
...position reflects Administration policy, but both reflect New York political reality. Hillary's advisers were feeling swell about the letter, because for the first time, as one says, "she made a judgment that the dictates of New York politics were going to structure what she did. She crossed a Rubicon." In other words, she had the good sense to notch her first abject pander to a New York interest group. (She then wasted no time notching her second, coming out in favor of price supports for New York dairy farmers.) Pop the corks...
...membership card from the 10th grade. Josh follows suit, emptying his wallet on the unsuspecting bouncer. The line begins to back up. People start shouting. The bouncer panics. He shoves all of our IDs back at us and slaps on entry-bands. We're in. We've crossed the Rubicon...