Word: seamless
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With his peerless instinct for composition, Weston could soon reconfigure the female nude to find the fracture lines of Braque or the seamless forms of Brancusi. But it took a personal and artistic crisis in 1923 to push him beyond ingenious deployments of volume and line. He took off for Mexico with his lover Tina Modotti and one of his sons. He spent the next three years rubbing shoulders with the muralist Diego Rivera, dodging the postrevolutionary turmoil and making pictures under the Mexican sun that specifies every object it falls upon. Among them were a series of vivid head...
Cuomo's character does not always coincide with his rhetoric; his politics and his persona are not a seamless garment. Cuomo is the poetic speaker who preaches the politics of inclusion yet distrusts all but a handful of people. He is the cerebral Roman Catholic who has modeled himself on St. Thomas More but can display a kind of conspicuous moral vanity. He is the immigrant's son who talks about mercy and generosity but can be meanspirited and vindictive. Yet contradictions aside, he is that rare figure who is able to inspire, to tap into the souls of voters...
...matter how far the current investigation goes, moreover, the almost seamless skein of evidence collected so far has been greeted with skepticism. For years, Mengele had displayed an uncanny adeptness for eluding his pursuers. Suddenly, not long after the search intensified once again earlier this year, the body was found and tidy explanations appeared. "The whole matter looks like a play with a perfect script," said Simon Wiesenthal, who has tracked down more than 1,100 Nazis in a 38-year campaign. "Mengele lives and breathes," said Menachem Rusek, director of Israel's police unit investigating Nazi crimes, before flying...
Last year, however, the traffickers' seamless system was disrupted when President Betancur declared a state of siege under which suspects could be arrested in Colombia without warrant. Betancur also revived extradition, which he had previously opposed on philosophical grounds. Signaling his determination to pursue even the most powerful of traffickers, he promptly signed an agreement with Washington for the extradition of Cocaine Kingpin Carlos Enrique Lehder Rivas, an ultrarightist who is wanted for a host of drug-related crimes in the U.S. In all, Washington has requested the arrests of 85 Colombians for drug-connected offenses...
Observers of the Catholic hierarchy find Law frequently defending O'Connor's strict orthodoxy and breaking away from trend of Bernardin's "seamless garment" of life issues, in which the issues of life issues in which the issues of abortion social welfare programs, and nuclear arms are given equal treatment...