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...Siena. And by the end of the quattrocento, in Benvenuto di Giovanni's image of Christ on his way to Calvary, the landscape is real and full of fantastical character: a Roman soldier like an armed Boschian lobster, tormentors pulling and grabbing at Christ, knots of rope, pebbles underfoot -- each bearing its own color and polish, like a cabochon stone...
...rumble underfoot starts faintly, then grows in force to recall the roar of a distant subway train. Tons of water are pouring down the 47-ft. drop at the Brockway Mills hydroelectric plant and smashing against the turbine blades. The glistening steel shaft connecting turbine to generator begins to revolve, accelerating quickly. Needles on gauges tremble and move upward; panel lights...
...American history, a time attended by the end of inflation and of the wage-price spiral. He rolled back the writ of the Federal Government, helped to initiate tax reform, strengthened (amid some set-backs) the American posture in the world. But now one feels the ground shifting underfoot, a grinding of the tectonic plates...
...refinements left and right). On land, you can remove as many as five of a box's six panels by shedding all structure and discipline; nothing to either side, nothing above or behind, or, more important, nothing blocking the path ahead. On water, even the sixth panel -- solid earth underfoot -- is gone. Michel, savoring these selected uncertainties, asked Janis to name their boat. She reached into her past and chose a surfing cry: Cowabunga...
Three phones were constantly ringing, two dogs were underfoot, and one two- year-old son was scooting around the toy-strewn rooms of Oliver Stone's French country-style Santa Monica house. The writer-director, who seems capable of doing several things at once, was able to talk to TIME Correspondent Denise Worrell about his pre-Platoon movies and that peculiar state of mind called Hollywood. His comments...