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...Animated Landscape and Landscape with Rabbit and Flower. It is as hard to account for the spell of the last of these as it is to evade it. It is quintessential Miro -- a field divided roughly in half by a rambling horizon line, the earth featureless and red, the sky equally featureless (except for the ceremonious care with which the paint has been deposited) and blue. In the sky hangs a thing like a bladder, with a thin black line dangling to Earth: the ''flower.'' The ''rabbit,'' a sort of yellow Shmoo, regards it from below. There is nothing else...
...defender. An RV can be detected by standard imaging radar and shot down, preferably with smart rocks. But little time remains once the RVs are spotted, which means a defense runs the risk of being overwhelmed. In addition, the Soviets could blind radar with nuclear bursts in the sky and skew targeting by outfitting their RVs with stubby wings that would allow them to maneuver and escape the defensive rockets. Like fast-burn missiles in boost phase and decoys in midcourse, stubby wings are just one of the available conventional methods the Soviets might use to counter complicated Star Wars...
...Paris --the Laurence Oliviers, Noel Coward, Yves Montand, Edith Piaf--until Lena herself became a name to drop. The pools of Hollywood opened up to Lena when she became one of the first black film stars to escape the costume of a maid's uniform, in Cabin in the Sky and Stormy Weather. John Barrymore kissed her hand. Orson Welles tried, unsuccessfully, to go further. Lena and Gail settled down across the street from the Humphrey Bogarts, and Gail went to school with Natalie Wood. If Lena's durable career seems to have been plucked from the book...
When my host sister Kinga and I walked outside after dinner, however, the sky in front of us was graced by one of the brightest rainbows I'd seen in a long time. The entire arc and a fainter, second arc were visible against the clouds above the open fields that stretched from the edge of town. One end terminated near a red-brick church spire atop what might be the town's tallest building—over six hundred years old, according to Kinga...
...decline: $41 million in March, $31 million in April, $22 million in May. That said, $22 million in any other cycle would be record-breaking. McCain posted his best month ever in June: $22 million. And there is a natural cooling-off period after the primaries. With gas prices sky-high, some small donors may feel like Obama doesn't need their $25 as much as they do. "The thing we are a little concerned about is that some people don't realize the urgency," said Karen Finney, DNC communication director. "Senator McCain is a formidable candidate...