Word: towered
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...beyond him. Composed with the deliberation of music or poetry, her groupings of bowls can limn the personal (Silence, 1995, where two pairs of figures tower above a silvery pool, either mute or deaf to each other) and the political (one can't help but read the queue of 23 moist-lipped vessels in Exodus II, 1996, as asylum seekers). Other still-life groups simply delight in their play of form (the rising and falling rhythm of Breath, 2000) and color (the enlightening journey of Fade, 2003). Her groups, which the artist keeps carefully documented in photographs, are growing...
...Insurance, its second biggest life insurer. Compared with the same period in 2004, pretax profits in China increased sixfold, to $161 million, in the first half of 2005. As a sign of its renewed influence in the Middle Kingdom, the bank resides today in a new skyscraper called HSBC Tower in Shanghai's up-and-coming financial district of Pudong, across the Huangpu River from the bank's old, domed office on the Bund. "We've been here 140 years, and we'll be here another 140 years, at least," says Richard Yorke, CEO of HSBC in China...
Residents near the east wall of Leverett G Tower, which faces the construction, complained of hammering and pounding...
...reminiscent of the scene in Jurassic Park where the T-Rex slams his feet and water in the glass shakes. For anyone who had heard the noise it was unforgettable; for anyone who hadn’t, it was unimaginable.When I agreed to move into Leverett G tower last spring, I knew there would be construction. For months I dealt silently with trucks backing up at six in the morning, with endless jack hammering and drilling. But when the metal monstrosity of the ground-pounder made its appearance, I finally couldn’t take it anymore.While Harvard?...
...board airplanes—and carry out countless other mildly dangerous tasks every day—without thinking twice about the risks involved. We like to think that the tragedies we witness on the news take place in a separate realm of existence, far from the impressive Ivory Tower and the invincible Harvard student. But in this new year, let’s remember that even in our seemingly impregnable world of airbags and antibacterial soap, planes malfunction, cars crash, and silent epidemics propagate in the most unsuspecting populations. Even though we tend to take it for granted, life...