Word: sterne
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They are among the most foreshortened landscapes ever painted, and they have a weird if harmless sense of danger to them, as though all those ticky-tack houses and stern, vertical condos and loops of thruway were about to slide down the canvas and rumple up in heaps at the bottom--fulfilling, in miniature, the prophecy that has always been made for the quake zone. But this prospect feels remote. Thiebaud has never tried to read a sense of Expressionist angst into the California coast...
...against the slate-gray Baltic skyline, the Finnfighter has neither the smooth horizontal lines of a conventional freighter nor the bulk of a passenger ferryboat. It combines elements of both, as if a cargo ship had slowly crunched its stern flat against an iceberg. It's the latest in a new line of ships to roll out of Dry Dock No. 1 in the industrial port city of Gdynia. It's also a rare economic success story to emerge from the tatters of communist rule...
...consider this stat, from the Philadelphia Music Alliance: Hy Lit's 6-10 p.m. shift on WIBG once earned an astounding 71 percent of the radio audience. Those are, I dunno, dictatorship numbers - about 10 times what the highest-rated show in any market (drive-time news, Howard Stern, Opie & Anthony) can pull in today...
...benefits. The 6-ft. 11-in. Georgia native, who will earn $12 million over three years, is the seventh of eight children raised by a single mother who supported her kids by cleaning motel rooms. When asked how he would spend his paycheck, Brown (with NBA commissioner David Stern) said, "I've got to take care of Mom. You cannot give your mom enough...
...thought it was more stable and we knew that it didn’t weigh more,” Butt said. “The flow off the stern was minimal and the boat slipped through the water instead of plowing through. But the comfort of the rowers was the determining factor...