Word: symptom
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...woods holding a lyre. "Nude Youth with Lyre," from 1907, is "Marble Faun" redone at a much higher level of technical mastery, and, more importantly, it is the work of an artist committed to his tastes. Day's love of classical subject matter was surely more than a symptom of his desire to prove that photography was a fine art. He seems to have been genuinely fascinated with the exotic and the mystical. The wallpapered gallery reminds us that we are essentially in Day's home, viewing works that were personal and self-expressive...
...having a heart attack, and you can have a heart attack without the chest pains of angina. Fully one-third of all heart-attack victims feel no muscle pain at all, according to a study published in the Journal of the American Heart Association last summer. Their most common symptom is extreme shortness of breath or difficulty in breathing. Other signs include nausea, profuse sweating, lightheadedness, fainting, palpitations or unexplained anxiety...
...against the Albanian separatists who'd fought alongside the West last time around, which could provoke a dangerous showdown between NATO and the former KLA throughout Kosovo. Even if NATO and Belgrade find a way of resolving the latest flare-up, the intractable conflict of which it is a symptom persists. The more things change in the Balkans, perhaps, the more they stay the same...
...watching world, America's malaise resides not simply in the fact that the U.S. can't seem to agree on just how many recounts of the Palm Beach vote doth a president make. The leadership crisis of which it may be a symptom has been in the making since the end of the Cold War. Partisanship ended at the shoreline back when Americans saw themselves as threatened by an "Evil Empire," and it's almost unthinkable that the elected representatives of either party would have tolerated a spectacle as demeaning as last year's impeachment proceedings in an era when...
...Cairo, where the Mubarak government is once again engaged in its familiar ritual of stealing elections, the Florida contretemps was greeted as a familiar symptom. "People here welcomed the announcement that Bush had won because Joe Lieberman being vice president is not something people here would welcome at all," says TIME Cairo reporter Armany Radwan. "So when it was announced that Bush had in fact not won, many people were joking that they're messing with the election in America as well, because they're very busy doing that here right now. One supporter of an opposition candidate...