Word: ruinously
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...Bomb Heat, Radiation, and Fire, Nagasaki-a gelatin silver print that darkly conveys the force of the atomic bomb that had devastated the city in 1945. The stark Prostitute, Nagoya conjures up the seedier underbelly of the mid-century boom years. Later images-like the strange, wriggling creatures of Ruinous Garden, or the rusting steel of the series Scrapped Boat, Nagasaki-are more abstract and puzzling, as if mirroring the confusion and disillusionment that took hold when the boom turned to bust. Poised between the horrors of its past and the possibilities of its future, modern Japan has been...
...stark Prostitute, Nagoya conjures up the seedier underbelly of the mid-century boom years. Later images - like the strange, wriggling creatures of Ruinous Garden, or the rusting steel of the series Scrapped Boat, Nagasaki - are more abstract and puzzling, as if mirroring the confusion and disillusionment that took hold when the boom turned to bust. Poised between the horrors of its past and the possibilities of its future, modern Japan has been a society in constant flux: there can be few more acute observers of this process than Shomei Tomatsu...
...only provides a small sample size, but it is tantalizing.Over three years at Harvard, he’s pitched just 17.2 innings, often in attempts to cultivate a niche as closer, but has struck out 25, giving up only 11 hits. On top of the fastball, he features a ruinous plunging curve that many believe is his best pitch.“I hope he pitches,” captain shortstop Morgan Brown says. “The guy is lights out. He’s one of the guys that when he’s throwing a bullpen, everyone...
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...jihadists, and others who reject, on principle, any American interference in Iraq’s affairs. Soon the world realized that the fabricated universe of neo-conservative logic was imprudent at best. Those policy makers who pushed for the Iraq war seem to have been contemptuous of the decidedly ruinous effects of their wild military excursion in the bitter Arabian deserts.When people are being killed daily, great and far reaching emotions diffuse without restraint. In a literally explosive situation like that in Iraq, it is just unreasonable to jump to issues that even nations living in peace struggle with, such...