Word: sun
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...Sun...
Meteorologists attributed the abnormally high tides to an unusual cosmic dance. The combination of factors included syzygy (pronounced syz-uhjee), a twice-monthly condition in which the earth, sun and moon are most closely in alignment; perigee, when the moon is closest to the earth in its monthly orbit; perihelion, when the earth is at its shortest distance from the sun; and the tidal bulge caused by the moon when it reaches the southernmost point in its orbit...
...response to Cairo's nationalization of the Suez Canal. But the British soon withdrew, confronted by the Eisenhower Administration's objections to the operation and a rising tide of criticism at home. In so doing, they also had to face a fact that they had resisted until then: the sun had set on the British Empire. After Prime Minister Anthony Eden resigned, ostensibly for health reasons, the Conservative Party chose Macmillan, a veteran politician, as his replacement...
...Malevich -- all represented by remarkable works. One would have to go a long way before finding a more intriguing Kandinsky, for instance, than his Lady in Moscow, 1912, with its gray "health aura" and its sinister coffin-shaped black mass that, floating across the street, menaces the life- giving sun...
...BOOK OF THE YEAR If the recipes do not work, you can always eat the pages of the year's most beautiful, lavishly illustrated cookbook, Roger Verge's Entertaining in the French Style (Stewart, Tabori & Chang; $45). The food photographs are as tantalizing as the table settings and the sun- dappled, impressionistic outdoor scenes in the south of France, where the author operates the three-star restaurant Moulin de Mougins...