Word: snow
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...making the watercolors that are the harbingers of his temperas. He bundles up in boots, a turtleneck, a ratty forest-green hacking jacket with a ragged velvet collar, and a shaggy sheepskin coat. He grabs his watercolor kit, clucks at his dogs to follow, and lopes off across the snow-spotted fields. When he finds what he wants, he plunks right down in the slush and goes to work with a fury, often until his fingers turn blue...
...barrels are lonely. He believed that the painting must find an echo inside the painter-in a sense, Method painting. It was all done with such verve and warmth that, as Sister Carolyn says, "there was nothing arty about it. It was like coasting, like playing outside in the snow...
...Holmes describes us quite wonderfully, and she's a tireless compiler of biological trivia. She scours the extremes of the earth for anomalous and specially adapted humans, like the Tierra del Fuegians, who (before they died out) wore no more than a loose animal skin even in sleet and snow, and the Yana Indians of California, whose men and women speak different dialects. She has an engaging passion for rankings, as if all earthly fauna were competitors in an endless evolutionary Olympics. Our sense of taste, for example, outperforms a pigeon's and a tiger's (it turns out that...
Flurries of thick, wet snow swirled through the streets of Washington last Wednesday, clogging traffic and slowing down pedestrians to a labored trudge. As the snow piled up, Government offices and private businesses closed early and sent their workers home. By midafternoon, traffic on the bridges over the Potomac River that link the capital with its Virginia suburbs had already slowed to a crawl. Meanwhile, Washington National Airport had just reopened after having been shut down by the snowfall for two hours. At 3:59 p.m., Air Florida's Flight 90 to Tampa, a Boeing 737 with 74 passengers...
Groomed for Success Most U.S. Treasury Secretaries come to the job after long careers on Wall Street (Paulson, Robert Rubin), in industry (John Snow, Paul O'Neill) or in politics (Lloyd Bentsen). Geithner, born 14 days after Obama, will, by contrast, be one of the youngest Treasury Secretaries ever, and he will land in the office at one of the most critical junctures in U.S. economic history. But his elevation to the top job at Treasury has long been expected. Geithner has been doing older people's jobs for years. I first met him 18 years ago, when we were...