Word: strength
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...amazing experience to walk through the central galleries of this show where the masterpieces of his career are hung, the huge all-over paintings of 1948-50. How did an artist who looked so unpromising at first attain this clarity, strength and command of scale? Not easily, and it is very much to the show's credit that it includes failures and partial successes along with the works that incontestably come off. It makes you more alert to the risks Pollock took. There were no rules for what he was doing; the besetting danger was always overcongestion of the surface...
...consider the work of outstanding social scientist Mary Meeker, who publishes intellect-boosting tests, workbooks and software. Since 1996 our firm has provided the Meeker model to almost 150 schools serving more than 60,000 youngsters. These schools have documented statistically significant increases in academic achievements. By developing intellectual strength and stamina, students increase their mental power and endurance--whether they are learning math, the grammar of English or other languages, how to read music, run a four-cylinder engine, program a computer or balance a ledger. By strengthening our students' thinking abilities today, we can enrich their lives tomorrow...
Every four years the political press corps digs into closets, rummages through attics and basements, dragging out the industrial-strength parkas, the mukluks, the Gore-Tex vests and the flannel-lined chinos, as we prepare for winter in New Hampshire. Pause for a moment at that last phrase: "winter in New Hampshire." Unlike "April in Paris" or "autumn in New York" or "springtime in the Rockies," no one has ever written a song titled Winter in New Hampshire. Ever wonder...
Alanis' most recognized strength, of course, isher ability to write lyrics that might as wellstand alone as poetry. The songs generally avoidrhyme, making for a more fluid, unpredictablesound. Amidst the pulsing techno of "So Pure," weare treated to surprisingly profound lyrics: "Youfrom New York, you are so relevant/You reduce meto cosmic tears." Dance music that doesn't rhyme?Techno that actually means something...
...restraint still isn't her strength. Alanislikes to confess, she likes to solve and workthrough her problems in words. And suddenly, itseems like she has the whole world as her musicalcanvas. After a trip to India and an explorationof Eastern religion, she offers us her perspectivenot only on love, but spirituality andenlightenment. Indian themes and phrases pop upall over the album, especially in "Thank U," thefirst single off the album currently saturatingairwaves. (If the "Indian experience" revitalizedMadonna's torpid career and reawakened Alanis,imagine what it could do for someone like CelineDion...