Word: thinning
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...exhibit for the first time what she calls her "inseparable bowls," the ceramic clusters and trails for which she is now justly famous. "I like what happens to more than one," she said at the time. "Volume changes into line, as our eye perambulates. Interior colors float from thin rims, making an echo...
...search for Tiananmen images; google.cn yielded postcard shots of the Beijing square, but google com gave up scenes of the 1989 massacre. KUDLOW'S MONEY POLITICS spanked Google for "repressing free speech" abroad while protecting "kiddy porn" at home. But THE REACTION was hopeful: "Google could be the thin end of ... a wedge that ultimately leads to political reform...
...crisp Saturday night in early winter, an armada of Hyundais and Saturns arrived at the colonnaded Bridgehampton Community House in the center of the Hamptons, a thin necklace of ultra-wealthy hamlets at the tip of New York's Long Island...
...Army cannot maintain its current pace of operations in Iraq without leaving permanent damage. Plans to trim U.S. troops there this year-now at 138,000, with hopes of reducing that to 100,000 by year's end-is a tacit acknowledgment that the Army is stretched too thin, he maintains in a section he entitles "The Thin Green Line." The service's failure to achieve its recruiting goal in 2005-the first time it has missed it since 1999-and hefty bonuses for soldiers to reenlist are further evidence of the Army's erosion, he writes...
Hoop Dreams. Crumb. Michael Moore's Roger & Me. Errol Morris' The Thin Blue Line. Michael Apted's 7 Up series. These are some of the finest documentary features in recent decades, and they share one distinction: none received an Oscar, or even a nomination, for Best Documentary. An outcry over the exclusion of films like these and charges of cronyism within the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' selection committee led to rules changes in 2001. So this year's list will be a lot sharper...