Word: transcendentalized
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In the eyes of some, athletes have always been paid too much. This view was given new currency when the Seattle Mariners' free-agent shortstop, Alex ("A-Rod") Rodriguez, last week signed a 10-year contract with the Texas Rangers for (no typo) $252 million. Is A-Rod's windfall...
Remember, he had been trying to reshape the whole landscape of American politics, by revitalizing and reinventing a kind of liberalism that had passed away with Bobby Kennedy. Yet he often hadn't had the words to explain it. But the bombing speech was a moment where, out of the...
So what happens when the proverbial beholder turns his eye on the artist's intention? The emphasis seems altogether independent from distinguishing "beauty" in its transcendent character. This antinomy, premised on beauty's universality, with its divergent conclusions about art, comes across in the exhibit's presentation as the tension...
So there it was: the Olympics had, for once, made good on their promise. The Olympics had visited Australia and were leaving the country a better place than it was before. In doing so, this surpassing Olympics in Sydney had been crowned by an altogether transcendent performance.
Anyway, I asked if he thought Cathy would come through. "I think so," he said. "Gosh, I hope so." Then I tried my latest notion on him: that I figured this could be the most weighted, freighted - transcendent - race since Jesse Owens won in front of Adolf Hitler in Berlin...