Word: trios
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...first of those images he set loose in public was Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion, a triptych he exhibited in 1945, when he was 35 years old. On three panels of bright reddish orange scuffed with grey, a trio of mutant figures grimace, snarl and bark. In two of them, the most expressive feature is the gaping mouth. What the eyes represent for most painters, the mouth was for Bacon, the locus of human identity. The mouth is what bites, suckles and howls at the moon. By contrast, the eyes in any face painted...
...past year staving off one disaster after another, for the most part working behind the scenes. Earlier in the month, they had let investment bank Lehman Brothers slide into oblivion and then ushered another, Merrill Lynch, into the arms of Bank of America. Just the night before, the trio had wrapped up a deal to rescue insurance giant American International Group and gone to bed praying it would halt the panic and worrying it wouldn...
...Princeton's economics department and is one of the foremost scholars of the Great Depression and other economic catastrophes. Least known of the three is Geithner, 47, whose years at Treasury in the 1990s and position at the Fed's pivotal New York City office make him the trio's eyes and ears on Wall Street. There is some speculation that Geithner himself might be Treasury Secretary someday in a Democratic Administration. "A very unusually talented young man," said Paulson. "He understands government and understands markets...
...very Wall Street firms that caused this problem in the first place. But as unpalatable as it is to bail out the wealthy financiers whose greed got the economy into this mess--and to do it, no less, in an election year when voters are already furious--the trio maintained that not doing it would be even worse. "We just haven't communicated as well as we need to. The average American looks at this as being about Wall Street. They're angry, and I'm angry too," Paulson said. "But the average American doesn't understand the implications this...
...breakthrough, a fresh government crackdown on potential dissent has many critics running scared. On September 12th, three opposition-linked figures - an online blogger, a journalist and a politician - were taken into custody. The country's Law Minister Zaid Ibrahim resigned in protest of the arrests, and two of the trio were released within days. But on Sept. 22, Raja Petra Kamaruddin, the founder of influential online news site Malaysia Today, was directed by the Home Minister to spend two years in a detention center for inciting racial hatred. Because Raja Petra's case came under the auspices of Malaysia...