Word: seems
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...pretend to know exactly what they are, but at least three changes seem evident. Twenty-two-year-olds today have more opportunities than their parents and grandparents did and in a wider variety of locations; intra-and international travel are so commonplace that little but familial ties inhibits us from ending up in San Francisco, Nairobi, Paris or Bucharest...
...biotechnology, comparative religion and visionary literature are hiding in the American heartland. Teenagers make up a near majority of the audience for DisInformation www.disinfo.com) a site that purveys antimainstream media politics and conspiracy theory to hundreds of thousands with a humor and skepticism that make Paul Krassner's Realist seem earnest and tame...
...hate to be the skunk at the picnic--or rather, the great national celebration that attended the return of John Glenn to space. But amid all the high-fiving about how wonderful and glorious it was, we seem to have glossed over the fact that on that beautiful Thursday morning we sent the same man on the same trip he made 36 years ago. It is as if we had a great big back-slapping national jamboree at Kitty Hawk in 1939 to watch the Wright brothers skim the sand in a new biplane...
Such was Pollock's problem. The picture in which he broke free from it--and, it now seems, took American art into a larger freedom with him--was the 20-ft.-wide mural he did for Peggy Guggenheim. He painted it in one outpouring rush, in a day and a night. Mural isn't by any means an abstract painting. It retains the essence of subject matter shared by most "classical" murals, from Giotto to Matisse--the projection of human figures on a large plane surface. But the movement isn't suave. The figures are arabesques, coiling, jammed together, recognizable...
...difficult to tell if this is just a sophisticated campaign to intimidate Saddam into backing down or if they're actually planning to attack," says TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell. "The problem is that we don't seem to have an endgame -- cruise missiles are more effective as a means of intimidation than at delivering a result. Baghdad believes that short of landing troops there, nothing we do militarily is going to have an enormous impact on them." If the U.S. plans to proceed, President Clinton's scheduled departure Friday for a 10-day tour of Asia...