Word: solidities
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...dances with the single-minded intensity of the divine. On her head she balances a solid granite boulder, symbol of her mortal burdens. Round and round in syncopated steps, her open palms fluttering up and down in tireless supplication, she strives toward ecstasy. On and on she circles to the soft crooning of "Mariam, Mariam, Mariam," bending and rising in private communion; the heavy stone never wavers. Suddenly she halts and smiles with such sweetness that the Virgin must surely have answered her prayer...
...baby's first convertible--a rocking cradle that segues neatly into a bassinet. Designed by Alberto Mantilla and Anthony Baxter of Curve I.D., it's intended to rockabye babies between birth and six months. The body, of molded plywood with an ash veneer, rests on a table base of solid ash. It has the simplicity of a Shaker basket with a touch of nursery humor, yet even those smiles are functional handles. Mies van der Rohe himself would smile at that...
...fresh steps to stimulate Japan's economy and stanch the banks' hemorrhaging. But what will those actions be? And will they provide strong enough medicine? A source close to the Prime Minister says it is "impossible" for the government to offer the kind of tax cuts that spur solid economic growth. "He will be able to offer a measure of confidence for the banking system," says the insider. "But we will not see economic growth for quite some time." Says former Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa, with characteristic understatement: "We will muddle through...
...More than a decade ago, he reminds me, he said that "if I die in the near future, and the Tibetan people want another reincarnation, a 15th Dalai Lama, while we are still outside Tibet, my reincarnation will definitely appear outside Tibet. Because"--the logic, as ever, is rock solid--"the very purpose of the incarnation is to fulfill the work that has been started by the previous life." So, he goes on, "the reincarnation of the 14th Dalai Lama, logically, will not be a reincarnation that disturbs, or is an obstacle to, that work. Quite clear...
...hope America lets the McCaugheys rear their children in peace, with the help of their friends and family. The couple's rock-solid faith probably did as much as anything else to help those seven babies make it. The parents are going to be overwhelmed at times, and the last thing they need is a media circus. PAUL A. FREITAG Cheverly...