Word: thunderbolting
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...know everything--to have read every book worth reading, seen every movie worth seeing. It didn't hurt that she also possessed a dark, slightly exotic beauty, the kind that could make her seem like the star of her own foreign film. You only had to look at that thunderbolt of silver in her abundant black hair. What was it if not the outward sign of a mind illuminated by its own lightning...
...work The Attitude of Lightning Towards a Lady-Mountain. Bristling with fire and ice, its riveting depiction of a female-shaped peak of laval rock being forged by the hand of lightning suggests both the irrationality of creation and the immutability of physics. It came as a thunderbolt in more ways than one. Not only did its showing at the inaugural Contemporary Art Society exhibition in Melbourne galvanize a whole movement around the Down-Under Dal?, but its purchase 51 years later by Sydney art lovers James Agapitos and Ray Wilson began what would become the most comprehensive private collection...
...ship that glided past the Statue of Liberty. For much of his architectural career, he was a teacher and theorist, not a builder. Then in the late 1980s, while living in Europe, he won a competition to design the Jewish Museum of Berlin. His complex building, a zinc-clad thunderbolt, operates in a way similar to that of Trade Center design. Its very lines acknowledge a calamity--in this case the Holocaust--while offering pathways for a story of survival and continuity. It instantly made him a worldwide design star, with commissions in Europe, Asia and the U.S., including...
...1980s, when he won a competition to design the Jewish Museum in Berlin, Libeskind's name was known only to people who followed architectural theory. Though he was a respected teacher and thinker, he had never built anything. But when the Jewish Museum opened in 2000, with its broken-thunderbolt design and the shock-cut diagonals of its windows, it instantly made him one of the most sought-after architects in the world...
...outpoll right-wing extremist Jean-Marie Le Pen for second place and a slot in the runoff against Presidential incumbent Jacques Chirac, Jospin prepared to announce his immediate resignation from French politics, saying that the strong showing of the National Front party had come “like a thunderbolt.” Yet, in many ways, that evening’s speech reflected the gravest of Jospin’s many electoral miscalculations. The growing potency and vigor of right-wing parties in Western Europe over the past few years has been strengthened by political apathy among moderate voters...