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...fireball of debris, lies almost completely swathed in bandages under a tent of heat shields and blankets. Another, propelled forward by a ruptured steam pipe, is scorched along his back and the back of his legs but was miraculously spared on the entire front of his body--a stark representation of the arbitrary line drawn between health and injury, normality and trauma, life and death...
...dignified, serious gaze of the sitter shows a quiet, restrained pride. Another Keïta portrait, also untitled and taken in 1959, shows a similarly grave young girl, her arms swung casually over a straight-backed chair. The girl’s elaborate white dress and beads provide a stark contrast to her frank, open facial expression...
While the lyrics on Time Out of Mind are stark and dreary (the first line on the album is "I'm walking through streets that are dead"), the lyrics on Love and Theft are vibrant and visionary, loose-limbed and jokey. On Cry a While, Dylan actually uses the phrase "booty call"; on Po' Boy, he tells a knock-knock joke. On Mississippi, he summons up his old outsider spirit, singing, "I was raised in the country, I been workin' in the town/I been in trouble ever since I set my suitcase down." But on Summer Days, he acknowledges that...
None of the interiors she has designed look capital-D decorated. Also not for her are the empty recesses of stark minimalism. She understands that people collect stuff, and finds a way to let them, without causing clutter. This balancing act lends her interiors a certain timelessness. Her own home, which she decorated seven years ago, mixing custom-made pieces with a chair found in the trash, is still being photographed for decorating magazines...
...leaders in the Hastert meeting said. "You realize the insurance companies won't pay." Silence in the room. It was true: Most insurance policies are written in a way that exempts the companies from paying for damages in a declared war. Congress, suddenly, was faced with a stark realization. A declaration of war could end up allowing the insurance companies to wiggle out of paying damages for the devastation at the World Trade Center and other New York buildings. Shelve that idea, the leaders decided. Congress would later pass a resolution just authorizing Bush to use force against terrorists...