Word: tremoring
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...says, are limited to a hereditary hand tremor, which gives his drawing style its distinctive wobble. His characters also endure adversity - from the grumbling colostomy bag of Uncle (1996), the first in a trilogy of shorts acquired by broadcaster sbs, to the cerebral palsy of Cousin (1998) and asthmatic fits of Brother (1999). But more often than not, they don't. "When I was older, my auntie drank rat poison and died," says the narrator of Uncle, which sets the tone in the Elliot oeuvre for outlandish deaths. As for the carnage in Krumpet, Harvie's parents are found frozen...
...affirmative action, it was Rehnquist's court that ruled in 1995 that preferential treatment based on race in government programs is almost always unconstitutional. This was a legal earthquake, throwing into doubt most of the government's affirmative-action programs. A secondary tremor could come this week in a pair of University of Michigan cases involving the use of race as a factor in the admissions process. It's true that some colleges and universities around the country are already using creative ways of getting around a possible affirmative-action ban. But if the court bars or narrows affirmative action...
...earliest black-and-white works is White Discs 2 (1964) - an arrangement of black spots on a white ground. Look at it, though, and you begin to see flickering white spots - the afterimages of the black areas. Some of the early works, like the field of triangles Tremor (1962), seem to exist in three dimensions - to reside on a warped canvas. The jagged black lines of Blaze 1 (1962) and the ripples of Current (1964) create an illusion of color. Later, elements that ought to be 3-D (twisted threads, lattices) look flat; those that ought to be flat (stripes...
...served in Congress. Only two have held office longer than Robert Byrd, first elected to the House in 1952 and the Senate in '58. He has been around long enough to have served with a Connecticut Brahmin named Prescott Bush, the President's grandfather. With his white hair, benign tremor and penchant for quoting the Romans, Byrd seems more like a Senator from the 19th century than one from the 21st. He has never seen MTV. He refers to the camera in the Senate chamber as "the eee-leck-tronic eye." But due to his fierce opposition to the Iraq...
...outbreak of terrorism worldwide in response to the war, a chemical or biological outburst from a cornered Saddam and the attendant response from the U.S. - few expect a U.S. rebuilding of Iraq to be any less persistently messy than it has been in Afghanistan - and unlike Afghanistan, every tremor in the next Iraq will shake the energy markets, and those fuel-intensive industries, along with...