Word: summoners
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Heaney’s most striking characteristic is his depth and precision of personal expression. His ability to fluidly summon up whatever phrase or muse fits the moment betrays an artistic keenness that as a rule, college students are only beginning to acquire...
...Company spot an abandoned car that looks suspicious. It's in a place where cars don't usually park, and pedestrians seem to be avoiding it. And it's on the route the Marines often use to return to their base at the end of their shift. The Marines summon the Iraqi police to take a look, but the cop car passes by several times without actually stopping to check out the vehicle. Frustrated, Lieut. Phillip Downs radios for permission to destroy the vehicle. Once he gets it, one of his men turns the abandoned car into a burning hulk...
...Moan, Can You?” but also the jealous ex-lover classics “Everyone Thinks He Looks Daft” and “Give My Love to Kevin.” The latter is a truer exercise in pathetic bitterness than anything Rob might summon, as it insults new-guy Kevin’s job, threatens him, questions his ex’s mother’s opinion of him but still confesses at the song’s apex: “I just can’t bear to imagine you sharing...
...which the skyscraper has evolved since the early '90s, at least in the hands of its most gifted practitioners, the kind who are proposing--and, hey, even producing, but usually in other nations--buildings that don't resemble the bland boxes that crowd most American downtowns. Nobody wants to summon back the naive techno-optimism of the 1950s and '60s. All the same, spend an hour at MOMA, and you can't resist gathering these buildings into an imaginary skyline as sexy as anything in The Jetsons. Remember when the future was fun? Perhaps it still...
...which the skyscraper has evolved since the early '90s, at least in the hands of its most gifted practitioners, the kind who are proposing - and, hey, even producing, but usually in other nations - buildings that don't resemble the bland boxes that crowd most American downtowns. Nobody wants to summon back the naive techno-optimism of the 1950s and '60s. All the same, spend an hour at moma, and you can't resist gathering these buildings into an imaginary skyline as sexy as anything from TV's space-age Jetsons cartoon. Remember when the future was fun? Perhaps it still...